Stór bás fullur af gervilimum fórnarlambanna. Sennilegast er mest af þessu eftir gamla hermenn börðust og misstu útlimi í fyrri heimsstyrjöldinni en lentu síðan í gasklefum í þeirri seinni. - Joi and Sonja gallery- powered by SmugMug

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Við tókum okkur c.a. 6 klst. í að skoða búðirnar tvær, enda höfðum við einkabílstjóra. Venjulega skoðar fólk þetta á 3 klst. en við ákváðum að taka okkur tíma í þetta. Auschwitz I eru eldri búðirnar og síðan er Birkenau sem eru mun stærri í um kílómeters fjarlægð. Ég verð að segja að eftir að hafa skoðað búðirnar þá hefur hugurinn oft reikað um það sem þarna fór fram og ég held að maður hafi gott af því að koma þangað.

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Joi and Sonja > Árið 1933 lifðu um níu milljónir gyðinga í hinum 21 löndum Evrópu sem nasistar náðu yfirráðum yfir. Árið 1945 höfðu tveir af hverjum þremur verið myrtir af nasistum. 1,5 milljón börn voru drepin og þar af þúsundir fatlaðra barna. Myndin sýnir hliðið fræga inn í búðirnar.

Joi and Sonja > Commanders of Nazi concentration camps reinforced barbed-wire fences with electrification. The fences became an avenue of suicide for some prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the practice was called "embracing the wire."

Joi and Sonja > "When we first arrived here, one sign read, 'You can expect to survive three months here, at most six. And if you don't like it, go to the fence and end it now.'" That confirmed my suspicions that deadly electricity did indeed flow in the inner fence of Auschwitz.
The Dentist of Auschwitz - a memoir by Benjamin Jacobs

Joi and Sonja > The causes of death most frequently given by the German physicians are: acute gastritis, pneumonia with accompanying heart failure, heart failure, and heart and circulatory failure. The majority of these causes of death have nothing to do with the truth. Prisoners assigned to the scribes chamber report that there was a special list drawn up by an SS physician, from which the causes of death noted on each certificate were copied. Fictional causes of death are entered for many people whom we know to have been shot, killed by lethal injection of phenol or in the gas chamber.
ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS AT THE AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU STATE MUSEUM

Joi and Sonja > At another, later gassing -- also in autumn 1941 -- Grabner* ordered me to pour Zyklon B into the opening because only one medical orderly had shown up. During a gassing Zyklon B had to be poured through both openings of the gas-chamber room at the same time. This gassing was also a transport of 200-250 Jews, once again men, women and children. As the Zyklon B -- as already mentioned -- was in granular form, it trickled down over the people as it was being poured in.
They then started to cry out terribly for they now knew what was happening to them. I did not look through the opening because it had to be closed as soon as the Zyklon B had been poured in. After a few minutes there was silence. After some time had passed, it may have been ten to fifteen minutes, the gas chamber was opened. The dead lay higgledy-piggedly all over the place. It was a dreadful sight.
* Maximillian Grabner, Head of Political Department, Auschwitz

Joi and Sonja > Það fannst gríðarlegt magn af hári í búðunum þrátt fyrir að nasistar hafi sprengt upp 30 vöruhús full af dóti sem tekið var af gyðingum sem komu í búðirnar og hár sem rakað var af eftir að fólk kom úr gasklefunum. Í þeim 6 vöruhúsum sem náðist ekki að sprengja fundust 348.820 jakkaföt, 836.255 kápur, rúmlega 7 tonn af hári og 13.964 teppabútar.

Joi and Sonja > Stór bás fullur af gervilimum fórnarlambanna. Sennilegast er mest af þessu eftir gamla hermenn börðust og misstu útlimi í fyrri heimsstyrjöldinni en lentu síðan í gasklefum í þeirri seinni.

Joi and Sonja > Ótrúlegur fjöldi af skóm, flestir litlausir en rauður háhælaður skór stóð útúr.

Stór bás fullur af gervilimum fórnarlambanna. Sennilegast er mest af þessu eftir gamla hermenn börðust og misstu útlimi í fyrri heimsstyrjöldinni en lentu síðan í gasklefum í þeirri seinni.