A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’

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In the years that followed, Romani German survivors struggled to gain justice and compensation. The legal cases they brought against those who had collaborated in their persecution, and in particular the race scientists and medical experts who had condemned them to sterilization, internment, and murder, resulted in no convictions. Indeed the same experts were called on to testify that “Gypsies” were inherently untrustworthy witnesses. Permanent exhibition – grounds of former Auschwitz I Concentration Camp". Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Archived from the original on 1 May 2014 . Retrieved 10 February 2016. Construction of Auschwitz II began the following month, and from 1942 until late 1944 freight trains delivered Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to its gas chambers. Of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, 1.1million were murdered. The number of victims includes 960,000 Jews (865,000 of whom were gassed on arrival), 74,000 non-Jewish Poles, 21,000 Romani, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and up to 15,000 others. [7] Those not gassed were murdered via starvation, exhaustion, disease, individual executions, or beatings. Others were killed during medical experiments. Gradowski, Zalmen (1989). "The Czech Transport: A Chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando". In Roskies, David (ed.). The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society. pp.548–564. ISBN 978-0827603141. Main articles: Nazi racial theories, Nazi eugenics, and Racial policy of Nazi Germany Romani woman with a German police officer and Nazi psychologist Robert Ritter

The stories of Sinti and Roma suffering in Nazi Germany are all too often lost or untold. In this haunting account, Otto shares his story with a remarkable simplicity. Deeply moving, A Gypsy in Auschwitz is the incredible story of how a young Sinti boy miraculously survived the unimaginable darkness of the Holocaust. Davies, Christian (7 May 2018). "Poland's Holocaust law triggers tide of abuse against Auschwitz museum". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 19 February 2019 . Retrieved 9 March 2019. In France, for example, the interned “nomads” were held in the camps and many were not released until June 1946. New research has revealed the participation of Romani men in the French Resistance, but also a shameful story of victimization after the liberation, by neighbors and Resistance activists who “naturally” suspected them of collaboration. Survivors of the Auschwitz “Gypsy Family Camp” were liberated from concentration camps in Germany along with Romani men and women who had survived the war in those camps. Haar, Ingo (2009). "Inklusion und Genozid: Raum- und Bevölkerungspolitik im besetzten Polen 1939 bis 1944". In Beer, Mathias; Beyrau, Dietrich; Rauh, Cornelia (eds.). Deutschsein als Grenzerfahrung: Minderheitenpolitik in Europa zwischen 1914 und 1950 (in German). Klartext. pp.35–59. ISBN 978-3837500974.

Baxter, Ian (2017). Images of War: Auschwitz and Birkenau. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-47385-687-5. In 1970, Rosenberg founded the Berlin-Brandenburg State Association of German Sinti and Roma, and he remained chairman until his death. [7] Rosenberg frequently talked about his experiences in German schools. [4] The Third Reich's government began persecuting the Romani as early as 1936 when they started to transfer the people to municipal internment camps on the outskirts of cities, a prelude to their deportation to concentration camps. A December 1937 decree on "crime prevention" provided the pretext for major roundups of Roma. Nine representatives of the Romani community in Germany were asked to compile lists of "pure-blooded" Romanis to be saved from deportation. However, the Germans often ignored these lists, and some individuals identified on them were still sent to concentration camps. [36] Notable internment and concentration camps include Dachau, Dieselstrasse, Marzahn (which evolved from a municipal internment camp) and Vennhausen. Danuta Czech ( Auschwitz 1940–1945, Volume V, 2000): "March 26, 1942: Nine hundred ninety-nine Jewish women from Poprad in Slovakia arrived, and were assigned numbers 1000–1998. This was the first registered transport sent to Auschwitz by RSHA IV B4 (the Jewish Office, directed by SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann)." [46]

The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, passed on 7 April 1933, excluded most Jews from the legal profession and civil service. Similar legislation deprived Jewish members of other professions of the right to practise. [12] Hoess, Rudolf (2003) [1951]. Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess. Translated by Constantine FitzGibbon. London: Phoenix Press. ISBN 1-84212-024-7. Piper, Franciszek (1991). "Estimating the Number of Deportees to and Victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp". Yad Vashem Studies. XXI: 49–103. ISSN 0084-3296. Wittmann, Rebecca (2005). Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674016941.

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a b c Kokkola, Lydia (2013-10-15). Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature. Routledge. p.76. ISBN 978-1-135-35404-6. The corpses were burned in the nearby incinerators, and the ashes were buried, thrown in the Vistula river, or used as fertilizer. Any bits of bone that had not burned properly were ground down in wooden mortars. [226] Death toll New arrivals, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, May/June 1944 Richard Baer became commandant of Auschwitz I on 11 May 1944 and Fritz Hartjenstein of Auschwitz II from 22 November 1943, followed by Josef Kramer from 15 May 1944 until the camp's liquidation in January 1945. Heinrich Schwarz was commandant of Auschwitz III from the point at which it became an autonomous camp in November 1943 until its liquidation. [96] Höss returned to Auschwitz between 8 May and 29 July 1944 as the local SS garrison commander ( Standortältester) to oversee the arrival of Hungary's Jews, which made him the superior officer of all the commandants of the Auschwitz camps. [93] Having to watch the misery and death of close family members, including small children (about 200 of whom were born in the camp) was remembered by survivors of Auschwitz as particularly traumatic, as was the total reversal of the gender and generational norms and the brutal denial of the conditions for hygiene, mutual respect, and honor that defined traditional Romani family life. Hilberg, Raul (1998) [1994]. "Auschwitz and the 'Final Solution' ". In Gutman, Yisrael; Berenbaum, Michael (eds.). Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. pp. 81–92. ISBN 0-253-32684-2.

German doctors performed a variety of experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. SS doctors tested the efficacy of X-rays as a sterilization device by administering large doses to female prisoners. Carl Clauberg injected chemicals into women's uteruses in an effort to glue them shut. Prisoners were infected with spotted fever for vaccination research and exposed to toxic substances to study the effects. [154] In one experiment, Bayer—then part of IG Farben—paid RM 150 each for 150 female inmates from Auschwitz (the camp had asked for RM 200 per woman), who were transferred to a Bayer facility to test an anesthetic. A Bayer employee wrote to Rudolf Höss: "The transport of 150 women arrived in good condition. However, we were unable to obtain conclusive results because they died during the experiments. We would kindly request that you send us another group of women to the same number and at the same price." The Bayer research was led at Auschwitz by Helmuth Vetter of Bayer/IG Farben, who was also an Auschwitz physician and SS captain, and by Auschwitz physicians Friedrich Entress and Eduard Wirths. [155] Defendants during the Doctors' trial, Nuremberg, 1946–1947 Ethnic origins and number of victims of Auschwitz". Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. The ideology of Nazism combined elements of " racial hygiene", eugenics, antisemitism, pan-Germanism, and territorial expansionism, Richard J. Evans writes. [9] Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party became obsessed by the " Jewish question". [10] Both during and immediately after the Nazi seizure of power in Germany in 1933, acts of violence against German Jews became ubiquitous, [11] and legislation was passed excluding them from certain professions, including the civil service and the law. [a] The Romani Holocaust or the Romani genocide [4] was the planned effort by Nazi Germany and its World War II allies and collaborators to commit ethnic cleansing and eventually genocide against European Roma and Sinti peoples during the Holocaust era. [5]Rabbi unhappy at Auschwitz cross decision". BBC News. 27 August 1998. Archived from the original on 3 March 2020 . Retrieved 27 January 2019.