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Höss experimented with various gassing methods. According to Eichmann's trial testimony in 1961, Höss told him that he used cotton filters soaked in sulfuric acid for early killings. Höss later introduced hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid), produced from the pesticide Zyklon B, to the process of extermination, after his deputy Karl Fritzsch had tested it on a group of Russian prisoners in 1941. [8] [7] With Zyklon B, he said that it took 3–15 minutes for the victims to die and that "we knew when the people were dead because they stopped screaming." [45] In an interview at Nuremberg after the war, Höss commented that, after observing the prisoners die by Zyklon B, " ...this gassing set my mind at rest for the mass extermination of the Jews was to start soon." [46] And Malcolm, I think one of the hardest things for me to read about, of the many, was the complicity of the non-German, the Poles and others, they were not Nazis, but they went along silently or otherwise, with what the Nazis were doing. And I said, “Well, actually, I know some publishers and we can actually write this book for the grandchildren of the world.
Höß, Rudolph (2000) [1959]. Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Höß. Translated by FitzGibbon, Constantine. Introduced by Primo Levi. London: Phoenix Press. ISBN 978-1842120248.
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The laws against the Jews, what they're allowed to do, what they're not allowed to do. And people have to somehow, I don't know, get into the sight of their of their psychic, where you want to be there and to save the human race and not kill it.
During six months of incarceration in Birkenau, Tova witnessed atrocities that she could never forget, and experienced numerous escapes from death. She is one of a handful of Jews to have entered a gas chamber and lived to tell the tale. The fact she is 83 now made me realise time will soon erase all those that experienced this first hand and it’s important to capture as much insight as we can before relying on second hand accounts. Other children, when they arrived into Auschwitz, were taken straight to the gas chamber. They never had a chance. Nobody had a chance. Somehow, I had the chance. So I have to tell it. Romanov, Sergey (8 November 2009). "Holocaust Controversies: War-time German document mentioning Auschwitz gassings: testimony of Eleonore Hodys". Holocaust Controversies . Retrieved 24 July 2018. I'll let her tell her story and the story of those around her. This is one of the most disturbing stories I've read because it isn't muted through the gauze of being "historical fiction". This is a real person who lived through horrible events. Sadly, this kind of thing isn't over and I'm not sure it will ever be over. The story is beautiful though, hearing Tova Friedman's success in living a full life despite all that happened to her and those around her.
And he even said to me, it will only be like 10, 15 people. Maybe they will — maybe they will call you. The new memoir "Daughter of Auschwitz" tells the harrowing story of one young girl's survival through the Holocaust. Tova Friedman co-wrote the book with correspondent Malcolm Brabant. They joined Judy Woodruff to discuss Friedman's life story. Read the Full Transcript https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/daughter-of-auschwitz-chronicles-the-life-of-one-of-the-youngest-holocaust-survivors
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