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1 Νοε 2015 · Listen to or read Holocaust survivors’ experiences, told in their own words through oral histories, written testimony, and public programs.
They were mainly occupied with camp extermination operations, carrying out the selection of the arriving Jewish transports and the patients in the prisoner hospitals, supervising the killing of Jews in the gas chambers, being present at executions, conducting experiments on prisoners on behalf of German pharmaceutical companies or out of their ...
Selection (German: Selektion) was the process of designating inmates either for murder or forced labor at a Nazi concentration camp. [1]
Selections of mass Jewish transports took place on three railroad unloading platforms, or ramps. SS doctors made most of the decisions about who was qualified for labor, and who was killed immediately.
After arriving at Auschwitz, Anka went through ‘selection’, where prisoners were selected to work or sent to the gas chambers to be murdered on arrival. Anka was selected to work. Here, Eva describes her mothers memories of selection and roll call in the camp.
5 Μαΐ 2009 · Martin Weiss discusses his deportation in May 1944 from the ghetto in Munkacs, then part of Hungary, and his arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi killing center.
Why are survivor testimonies important in studying World War II and the Holocaust? How do oral histories differ from other primary sources such as artifacts, documents, and photographs? What can we learn from different types of primary sources?
