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Reports regarding Auschwitz camp, including the medical experiments, the brothel for prisoners, the demolition of three gas chambers, the last execution and the only official wedding of a prisoner held in the camp Reports regarding Auschwitz camp, prepared by Franz Danimann and Kurt Hacker: injections of phenol as a means of medical pseudo-experimentation, torture and execution in the concentration camp; female inmates of Birkenau camp are forced to work as prostitutes for the benefit of male slave laborers; an inmate witnesses the underground extermination facilities before their dismantling; the execution...

File Number : 504

Language : German

Testimony of Hermann Langbein, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Vienna, Austria, 1912, regarding his experiences as Dr. Eduard Wirths' head clerk in Auschwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Hermann Langbein, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Vienna, Austria, 1912, regarding his experiences as Dr. Eduard Wirths' head clerk in Auschwitz Deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including information regarding the structure of medical services in the camp; criminal medical acts perpetrated by Dr. Josef Mengele and Dr. Friedrich Entress; labor as Dr. Eduard Wirth' s head clerk in receiving Jewish physicians and medical staff, 1942-1943; liberation. Life after the war; serves as General Secretary of the International Auschwitz Committee; activities of the International Auschwitz...

File Number : 1807

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German