Chronicles of Terror Vol. 7 [KSIĄŻKA]

The German doctor usually only came for the selections. They were carried out in such a way that the German doctor walked next alongside the sick beds and each prisoner had to get up. If she couldn't get up, no matter for whay reason, for example just beacuse her legs had ben scaled, she was designated for gassing. (From the testimony of Maria Nowakowska, a prisoner of Auschwitz-Birkenau who worked as a nurse). Apart from Doctor Entress, Doctor Jager and Doctor Vetter also relief on this group of patients for gaining knowlage of how to treat tuberculosis. This situatuincontinued for three months. After three months, during one night, all the sick were removed from both rooms and killed by phenol injections. When I came to work in the morning I found the rooms empty. (From the testimony of Władysław Tondos, a doctor interned at the camp as a political prisoner). This volume of \"Chronicles of Terror\" is the last of three devoted to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The accounts gathered here concern the fates of victims of German camp doctors. The testimonies describe not only the experiments conducted on camp inmates, but also the involvement of German medical staff in murdering prisoners and selecting them for gassing. At the same time, the witnesses depict the efforts of Polish doctors and nurses who sought to provide aid to their fellow prisoners.\nThe personal testimonies of former prisoners allow us to give voice to individual victims of Nazi totalitarianism, and such materials are considerably more compelling than dry statistics. These accounts present the unique experiences and different fates of their authors, who included not only Jewish and Polish citizens of the prewar Polish Republic, but also civilians from other countries of occupied Europe.\n