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Mr. Neuburger

English Comp 101-129

08 March 2011

Annotated Bibliography

Auschwitz

"Auschwitz."Holocaust Encyclopedia. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 6 Jan. 2011.

Web. 7 Mar. 2011.

Auschwitz was comprised of three camps. In May 1940, Auschwitz I was built. Auschwitz II,also called Auschwitz-Birkenau, was constructed in the early part of the year in 1942, while

Auschwitz III, also called Auschwitz-Monowitz, came about in October 1942. The camps werelocated approximately thirty-seven miles west of Krakow. Auschwitz I had three purposes: house

enemies of the Nazi regime, have an available supply of forced laborers and to physically

eliminate small, targeted groups of the population. Auschwitz I had a gas chamber and

crematorium. Medical experiments were mainly conducted on infants, twins, and dwarfs here.Auschwitz II was a camp designed specifically for killing only. There were dozens of gas

chamber surrounded by electrical barbed-wire fences so that no one was could escape.

Auschwitz III housed prisoners assigned to work at Buna where made synthetic rubber worksand fuel. In July 1944, 426,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Approximately 320,000 of

them were sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz II and 110,000 were used for labor. Altogether,

1.1 million Jews were deported to Auschwitz and at least 960,000 Jews were murdered.

This article is a great overview of the three camps that made up Auschwitz. The number of

deportations and murders of Jews is also given.

"Auschwitz-Birkenau." Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs', 2011. Web. 7 Mar. 2011.

One-sixth of the Jews captured were gassed at Auschwitz in a polish town named Oswiecim.Polish people were the first to have arrived in June 1940. In less than a year 10,900 prisoners

were held inside Auschwitz. In March 1941, Auschwitz II was built to hold the Jews, Poles,

Germans, and Gypsies where they could be cremated or sent to the gas chambers. Auschwitz III

was built for all the laborers. There were also forty-five sub camps that ran the Buna syntheticrubber factory. These workers were rarely fed, lived in inhumane conditions, and did back-

breaking labor until they died. Each time a group of people died, a new group was there to

replace them. There life expectancy was only a couple of weeks. By August 1944 there were

105,168 prisoners in Auschwitz. When people arrived for the selection process they were notallowed to take their belongings. The one's that were not sent to the gas chambers were striped

and given a uniform, their hair was cut off and an identification number was tattooed to their left


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arm. A prisoner's day consisted of waking up early for roll call, working, waiting in a line for

food and evening roll call. Auschwitz II killed around 6,000 people every day.

This article describes what one's day at a concentration camp would be like, what each

concentration camp was used for and various statistics.

Caro, Alfred. Holocaust Survivor Alfred Caro Testimony. Interview by Robert Cooper.

Anniston. USC Shoah Foundation Institute, 31 July 1997. Web. 20 Mar. 2011.

Alfred Caro's testimony is interesting because he was not in a ghetto. Before the Nazis began

exterminating people, everyone was jealous of the Jews. They thought they had more than themfor some reason. In 1938, Alfred's dad lost his business because no one was coming, so they left

Germany. Around this time, the Nazis' began breaking into houses and stealing items. This was

claimed to be done for political investigation. This is the first time I have heard about the Nazis

breaking into houses. They also were taking people for political investigation. Alfred Caro was

able to hide with friends and aunts for a few days before he had to leave. Unable to stay hiddenany longer, he was transported to Berlin for political investigation. In Berlin, he stayed for two

days until he was transported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. No investigation evertook place. Alfred Caro says the "Nazis had so much power and so much madness in them."

Arriving, they had to march to their camp while being kicked and degraded. More and more

people came to work for them. Jews had nothing and were lucky to be alive at this point. They

were only given water, water soup and a piece of bread for the entire day and slept on floors.Alfred Caro said "they did everything to make life misery." Every Jew thought their time at the

concentration camp was temporary. Alfred Caro only stayed at the concentration camp for six

weeks before being let go. I am also surprised they let some Jews leave instead of beingexterminated.

This testimony had some interesting facts that I can incorporate into my research paper.

"From the Testimony of Jeanne Levy About Working in Auschwitz-Birkenau." Yad Vashem The

Holocaust Martyrs', 2011. Web. 7 Mar. 2011.

Jeanne Levy escaped from being gassed, but was put to work. He was put in a barrack where

they had to sort the coats, clean them and take off the stars before they were sent away. His jobwas to clean the coats and remove all the stars off each one. Levy managed to keep some cotton

on the inside of the coats, so that everybody would know that is where a star had been. These

coats were either given to people in other camps or sent to Germany.

Jeanne Levy's testimony described his job at the camp. There is not enough information of his

testimony and I do not understand what the stars referred to or why they had to remove them.

"From the Testimony of Max Dreimer about Arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau." Yad Vashem The

Holocaust Martyrs', 2011. Web. 7 Mar. 2011.


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From Max Dreimer's perspective, when the selection process began they pointed at you and told

you to go either to the right or left side. Max Dreimer was put on the opposite side of his friends,so he snuck back to the other side in order to be with them. If he was caught, he would have been

shot at that moment. They were taken to the Buna camp where they would made rubber and

other various things. Every day they had to march to the work site and back. They were fed

horrible food and were always under constant supervision. He was there until September 1944.

Max Dreimer's testimony is similar to other survivor's descriptions of what a day at Auschwitz

was like. I will be able to tie his testimony into my paper.

"Josef Mengele."Holocaust Encyclopedia . United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 6 Jan.

2011. Web. 7 Mar. 2011.

Joseph Mengele was a SS physician and captain at the Auschwitz killing centers from May 30,

1943. He conducted experiments on hundreds of people with disabilities, such as dwarfs and

identical or fraternal twins. He was fascinated with their genetics that were associated withvarious diseases. Other groups of people he was interested in were heterochromias. These people

had different eye colors. Mengele was hoping this was the start of his medical career. He hadthirty physicians at his hand for all his experiments. When he was not consumed in the

experiments, he was on the ramp determining who was going to be saved for labor or sent to the

gas chambers. Mengele was given the nickname "Angel of Death" since he decided all the

prisoners fate. Joseph Mengele died of a stroke and drowned somewhere around Bertioga,Brazil, on February 7, 1979. For all the thousands of people he sent to the gas chambers and

hundreds he experimented on, his death was not painful enough.

This article gave a general description about Josef Mengele, but I will need to find out more

about some of the experiments he conducted.

Koren, Yehuda. "MENGELE AND THE FAMILY OF DWARFS." database. History Today ,

Feb. 2005.Ebscohost- Academic Search Elite. Web. 7 Mar. 2011.

The Ovitz family was a family of twelve who lived in Northern Romania. What made them so

special to Joseph Mengele was that five of them were dwarfs. Upon arriving at the selection

process, the Ovitz family was immediately split up. The other eleven claiming family membersconvinced him that they were related to the dwarfs. Sparks were flying in Mengele's head as he

realized he could compare them for one of his experiments. This family would be added to his

'human zoo' collection. Since Mengele did not want the dwarfs to be trampled, the family was

given their own living quarters. They enjoyed some pleasures, such as being able to keep theiroriginal clothes and having individual fleece blankets. Some of the first tests were done on

Shimshon Ovitz. They tested the baby's blood plasma because it supposedly contained all of their

genetic traits. Other tests on the other family members included extracting bone marrow, putting

drops into their eyes that would leave them blind for a certain amount of time, and droppingboiling or freezing water into their ears.


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It was a great article and will be very useful for a paragraph on experiments Josef Mengele

performed.

Meadows, Bob, and Lorna Grisby. "From The Flames." database. Time Inc., 15 Dec. 2003.

Ebscohost- Academic Search Elite. Web. 7 Mar. 2011.

Eva Mozes Kor and her twin sister Miriam were one of Mengele's two guinea pigs. "The Nazis

made me feel like I was nothing more than a mass of cells, a piece of meat," she says. They weretaken three times a week to a room, so that Josef Mengele could measure their bodies. A

minimum of two blood vials were taken from their arms. Each week they were given fifteen

injections. In these injections were chemicals that are still not identified to this day. Mengelewanted to see how much someone can lose and was still able to live.

This article will be of great use for my paragraph on Josef Mengele's experiments. It is

remarkable how one person can endure an unbelievable amount of torture and managed to stay

alive.

Morton, Joseph. "Holocaust Survivor Joseph Morton Testimony." Interview by Dan Gelfond.

Mortongrove. USC Shoah Foundation Institute, 4 Aug. 1997. Web. 20 Mar. 2011.

Joseph Morton's testimony described what life was like in a ghetto and concentration camp. TheNazis' spared no time in rounding up all the Jews. They started putting Jews in a ghetto on a

Wednesday and arrived on a Friday. All they would do is point a finger at you, since they did not

know who was a Jew and who was not. Someone does not have to look a certain way to be aJew. As a child, Joseph Morton was put in a ghetto, although he never mentioned its name.

Approximately 250,000 Jews were in a ghetto starting in 1940. Gypsies had their separate ghetto

as well. Once they rounded up the majority of Jews, the ghetto was closed off by wired walls.

Upon arrival, there were three or four dead guys hanging. This set the example of what wouldhappen to you if you did not listen and showed what the Nazis were capable of. People were

taken frequently from the ghetto to work on the crematories for Auschwitz or tortured. Some

torture involved sticking Jews heads in barrels of crap. Other Jews were assigned as policeofficers and were to enforce the laws inside a ghetto. Joseph Morton's dad was a Jewish police

officer. It was interesting that Jews themselves punished each other. I am surprised there were SS

guards in the ghettos instead. They were also fed poorly. Morton said that there was no problemwith getting a Jew to work for the Nazis'. "What kind of rules could they have, everybody was

interested to have a meal in front of them, to have something to eat." In September of 1944,

trucks started blocking off streets and taking away Jews. They were able to take some belongings

with them and were shipped to a different place to "work." Joseph Morton says there were aboutfifty or sixty people in each kettle car. Upon arriving, there were told to go left or right. No one

had any idea of what was to come. They did not know what being on the right or left side meant.

Joseph Morton was on the right side and one of the lucky ones. They were told to undress and

put in striped uniforms. At night, the SS guards would go around hitting them to see if they werehiding gold or diamonds. Joseph and a few family members were checked out to see if they

could work. From there, they were put on another kettle train into Germany to work. They left


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Auschwitz after two week. Joseph said he wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. Joseph

Morton spent around four years in a ghetto and two weeks in Auschwitz.

Mr. Mortons testimony will be of great use in my paper for what life was like in a ghetto.

"Testimony on the gassing at Auschwitz." database. Great Neck Publishing, Jan. 2009.

Ebscohost- Academic Search Elite . Web. 7 Mar. 2011.

Families were ripped apart upon reaching the camp. Women and children were sent to one side

where they would all be gassed immediately after the selection process was finished. Men were

put on the other side. Those who were able to work were sent to labor camps, while the otherswere killed. The few lucky people who survived round one of the gas chambers were all tattooed

with an identification number on their arm. No one knew what was going to happen to them until

it was too late. Everyone sent to the chambers were told to undress and were shoved in a so

called "shower," awaiting their dooming fate. It took five to seven minutes for the gas to kill each

and every one of them. Once everyone had the life sucked out of them, the SS guards took theirbodies out of the cells, so they could take out any gold teeth and dentures the victims had.

Afterwards, they were sent to crematories or large burning pits.

This testimony brings light to what happened to a person at a concentration camp from the time

they arrived to the time they died and will be very useful in my essay.

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