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Reconstructed Auschwitz Prisoner Text Details "Unimaginable" Suffering

(Deutsche Welle-Germany) Dagmar Breitenbach - A document written in 1944 by a Greek Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz found buried in a thermos near Crematorium III has been newly reconstructed. Marcel Nadjari wrote in 1944: "We all suffer things here that the human mind cannot imagine. Underneath a garden, there are two endless basement rooms: one is meant for undressing, the other is a death chamber. People enter naked and when it is filled with about 3,000 people, it is closed and they are gassed." "After half an hour, we would open the doors, and our work began." The prisoners' job: delivering the corpses to the crematory ovens, where "a human being ends up as about 640 grams of ashes." "I am not sad that I will die," Nadjari wrote, "but I am sad that I won't be able to take revenge like I would like to." Nadjari survived the war and died in New York in 1971 at age 54.
2017-10-20 00:00:00
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