So, someone on the Final Solution team went to someone a little lower on the totem pole and said, “…, hey, come up with a latrine system so that the prisoners can piss and shit. I wonder how many designs they tested?
Category: Concentration Camps
Auschwitz Bedroom
Typhoid and dysentry and who knows what else. No sheets. No blankets. Shit through the slats. Next day, move the bodies from the gas chamber to the crematorium. Take a wiff. Listen in. Workers died from disease, exhaustion and malnutrition. Many killed. Replaced. How did the Nazis do this? Few stood up for fear of death, never thinking about others. The autocrats took over, spreading their lies about the Jews. Only Aryan children were allowed to survive. Horrific understates the evilness.
SHINDLER’S LIST
So, these people were on Shindler’s list, a list typed up by Isaak Stern who faces us in the middle panel, third row from the bottom, third from the right. Bless the righteous.
Auschwitz Escapee Dies
Herman Shine died. He was one of the few to escape from Auschwitz. Less than 150 did. 1,100,000 didn’t. Some never made it to the gate. They died on the transport or were killed when they got off the train. Some were tortured by Mengele or raped by the soldiers before being executed. Shine was lucky to be young,fit and had help. The less lucky, children, the elderly and handicapped died quickly. Most died painfully from the gas.
The Jews weren’t the only ones killed here and in the camp across the tracks. Intellectuals went first. Gypsies, Russians, Polish sympathizers and other nationalities. No one said boo or boo hoo.
We will never understand how it happened or why. Our job is to honor the dead and to make sure it doesn’t happen again.