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Everybody stand up and remain
silent
Three questions
that will change
your life…...
How old are you?
If you are sixteen or older move
into the aisle
Do you have a trade?
If you have a trade move into the
aisle
Are you in good health, have a trade
and are over sixteen?
If you are well move into the aisle
Failure to answer ‘yes’
to all of these questions
would result in your
immediate selection for
death. If you are
standing you are dead.
Hitler and the Nazis were responsible for an
almost unbelievable catalogue of atrocities, but
the horrors above all horrors were the
extermination camps like Auschwitz, which
were true factories of death.
Arrival at Auschwitz
Deportees came from all over occupied
Europe. Trains usually held two or
three thousand victims, and took up to a
week to make the journey. Under the
fiction that they were being resettled,
each deportee was allowed between 30
and 60 kilos of luggage.
On The Ramp
By the time the train reached Auschwitz, the
conditions inside the freight cars were
revolting. There was little food other than
any the deportees had brought, no water, no
heating and no toilets. Once the doors were
flung back, the deportees needed little
urging to get out.
Separation of Sexes
On leaving the train, the deported Jews
were divided into two columns: males to
one side, women and children to the other.
This is one of hundreds of such trainloads
sent to Auschwitz from Hungary in 1944, a
year which saw more than 400,000
Hungarian Jews killed in Birkenau’s gas
chambers.
Dead On Arrival
For the weakest - babies, children and
the elderly - the journey itself was often
fatal. Bodies were left in almost every
wagon, often covered in excrement.
After being stripped and looted these
pitiful remnants were removed for
cremation by special squads of prisoners.
To Live or Die
Deportees were marched towards an SS
medical officer, who directed the
bewildered Jews into two lines. The
victims did not know it, but those sent to
the right were destined for work and life for the moment; those sent to the left
faced immediate death in the gas
chamber.
Slave Labourers
Fit victims had their heads shaved and
their belongings taken before being
marched to the barrack blocks at Birkenau
- passing the crematoria on the way. Many
would be moved on to Auschwitz I and
Auschwitz III. On average, slave labourers
lived for about nine months.
Collecting Loot
Soon the ramp was deserted, except for the
SS guards, their prison helpers and the
piles of luggage left behind by the victims.
Some of the Sonderkommandos were
tasked with sorting through the baggage
looking for food, while others loaded
lorries to take the loot to sorting and
storage sites.
Music To Die By
There were lawns and flower-beds
around the gas chambers, together with
large sings saying ‘Baths’. The Auschwitz
orchestra played as slave labourers left
the camp in the mornings, and those
selected to die sometimes went to their
deaths to the tune of Viennese operetta.
Resistance is Futile
Elderly Jewish men support an old woman
whose strength has given out after the
900 metre walk from the ramp. They
only have minutes to live: the building in
the background is gas
chamber/crematorium IV and within
moments the SS men approaching will
order them to strip and enter the
‘showers’.
Running to the Gas Chamber
A photo taken clandestinely by one of the
prisoners working with the
Sonderkommandos shows Jews being
herded to the gas chamber. Forced to
undress in a nearby wooded area, the
victims were told to put their clothes in
neat piles, “so that they would find them
easily afterwards”.
Moments From Death
The naked victims descended into the
underground gas chamber. When it was
full, the last SS men and kapos left the
chamber - the camp commandant thought
it reassuring if the guards were inside
until the last moment - and watch through
portholes in the sealed doors.
Poison
Guards wearing gas masks dropped Zyklon-B crystals
down wire lattice shafts from roof vents. The crystals
released cyanide in the warm, sweaty interior of the
chamber, and people close to the poison died quickly.
Those further away lived longer - but the last hands
fighting to get out relaxed their grip on the door after no
more than 20 minutes.
Holocaust in Lithuania
• Hamman - elite within the SS - eager for
promotion.
• Removed all Lithuanians who did not fit in
with Hitler.
• He was a career man who wrote down all
his achievements - this was given to the
Poles to have him hung in 1946 - He gave
no apology for his defence.
Holocaust in Lithuania
• Look at the source booklet - this will help you to
realise the magnitude of killing in Lithuania alone
• SHEET 1: In 11 days - 3,384 have been killed (7 28th July)
• SHEET 2: 24 days - total now 16, 152
• SHEET 3: By 1st September 47,814 killed
• SHEET 5: 29/11/41 Reichs German who converted
to the Jewish Faith & attended Rabbinical School.
• SHEET 6: Notice the volume of children murdered
TOTAL: 137,346 by 25th Nov (4 months)
• Today I can confirm that our objective, to solve the Jewish
problem for Lithuania, has been achieved by EK 3 In
Lithuania there are no more Jews, apart from Jewish
workers and their families.
• The distance between from the assembly point to the
graves was on average 4 to 5 Km.
• I consider the Jewish action more or less terminated as far
as Einsatzkommando 3 is concerned. Those working Jews
and Jewesses still available are needed urgently and I can
envisage that after the winter this workforce will be
required even more urgently. I am of the view that the
sterilisation programme of the male worker Jews should be
started immediately so that reproduction is prevented. If
despite sterilisation a Jewess becomes pregnant she will be
liquidated. (signed) Jager SS-Standartenfuhrer
People affected by the Holocaust
• 6 million Jews
• 2 million Gypsies
• 1 million homosexuals/ anti-socials
• 20-30 million ‘untermeschen’
THE HOLOCAUST
5,500 times the maximum
capacity of Wembley
Stadium
•You’ve just read through a list of statistics.
•If the Nazis had the capability to do this - so could
we…..
•The HOLOCAUST is often viewed as things that
foreigners did, BUT IT COULD HAPPEN HERE AND AGAIN - since WWII the same has happened in
INDIA,CAMBODIA, RWANDA, YUOGOSLAVIA.
•Don’t be arrogant enough to think it can’t happen
here.
•WE ARE ONLY HUMAN……...