"Vittnesmål" om "utrotningsläger och gaskammare"

"For many years, I didn’t talk about it," Herskovits said. "I had a number, a tattoo. When I came to the United States, people would see it and say, ‘Oh, poor thing.’ So I went to the doctor and I said to him, ‘I don’t want people to feel sorry for me.’ I asked the doctor to remove it. The doctor took out the skin. I didn’t have surgery because I didn’t have the money."

[...]A lot of women came in with babies in their hands. They took the babies and threw them in the air and they shot the babies. It was like a sport for them."

She explained how the Nazis sold the hair, which was later used for wigs, and how the skin was removed from corpses and later was used to make lampshades and picture frames.

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There are no scientific proofs that jews were exterminated in nazi gas chambers, a Holocaust scholar conceded yesterday at the trial of Ernst Zundel....

They were sent to get showered so they could begin to work. The doors to the shower chamber were closed, then the gas began to come out of the vents. When Yanina awoke she was lying among a pile of corpses, among them her family. Amazingly, she was still alive. A Jewish woman worker shook her to her feet and pressed her to work in one of the working gangs.

“They came in, emptied the house into several trucks before they burned the house down,” said Holocaust survivor Yanina Cywinska during a presentation she gave recently at Solano Community College hosted by the Ethnic Studies Department.

Then 10 year old aspiring ballerina Cywinska still remembers the harsh words like yesterday as she tells how her family was forced to watch as the Nazi’s burned down her home.

“‘Get out, you vermin of the earth, Jew lover,’ they told us,” she said

Shoved into a wagon, Cywinska and her family would be left for several days in a dungeon with no food or water. Dreaming of the pretty pink and blue Easter dress her mother had made for her, Cywinska would be awaken and dragged outside and given a shovel to dig ditches.

“There was no beginning and no end to each person. There were rows and rows of us,” explained Cywinska as she spoke about her first time escaping death.

The prisoners were lined up with their backs to the ditch. Cywinska recalls trying to help a woman who was in danger of falling in just as she heard the sound of rifles going off.

“The machine gun went off and I was lying underneath a lot of bodies,” she said.

Knocked into the ditch by the now lifeless body of the woman she was trying to help, Cywinska found herself covered with body parts and feeling like she would never escape.

“The more I tried to get out, the more I couldn’t get out,” she said.

Crawling on her “hands and knees like a dog,” Cywinska found strength in the faint sound of harmonica music to stack the mutilated bodies high enough to get out.

Eventually found and returned to the Nazis, Cywinska reunited with her family just in time to be moved to a new location.

“We were packed so tight in cattle cars, they would faint standing up,” she said.

The ride to the unknown destination forced Cywinska to watch mothers and fathers take the lives of their own children to prevent them from dying at the hands of Nazi’s.

“Just behave yourself, work makes you free,” said her father reading the words above the gate that led them into a Polish concentration camp called Auschwitz.

Told to strip and step into what appeared to be an enormous shower room, Cywinska recalls the panic she felt as the overcrowded room separated her from her family.

“Everything will be fine,” she recalls her father’s last words and touch as he felt through the crowd and grabbed her hand.

“It was not a shower, it was gas,” she said. “And the Nazis watched through a window.”

Watching Nazis parade around briefcases and lamps made of human skin while washing their bodies with soap composed of Jewish bone, Cywinska admits she found herself talking to god but questioning his presence.

“If God is so almighty power, why didn’t he stop the atrocities?” she wondered not just for herself but for all people adding, “What did the black person ever do to you? It’s sick,” she concluded.

Put to work in an experimental ward that tested “how much stress a human could take,” by pulling the nails and eyes out of Jewish people, Cywinska couldn’t help but to feel compassion as she “clean the brains and blood” of the bodies of the innocent victims.