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[Note: As this is taken from an archived site, some links and videos below may not be working.]Monday, 13 June 2011
1985, Wiesel's fire pits still doing the rounds
In Elie Wiesel's Ho£ocaust memoirs Night, he conspicuously fails to say asingle word about the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau. InsteadWiesel goes for the following method of execution for millions of people:
Thrown into fire pits alive, separate pits for children and adults
In 1985 a mock trial was held in Jerusalem for Dr. Mengele, who died in 1979.
Vera Alexander, the woman who invented the Siamese twins was there, aswas Vera Kreigel, who corroborators Elie Wiesel's fire pit for killing children:
Posted by The Black Rabbit of Inlé at 08:52
The story can also be found in an AP news item, dated February 4, 1985, "Survivors Describe Nazi Doctor’s Experiments" (click to enlarge):
Vera Kreigel’s first memory of Auschwitz was as a 5-year-old marching past a huge pit spitting flames. ″They were throwing in small children who they grabbed from their mothers and threw into the fire. They threw them in alive,″ she said, speaking in Hebrew.
″The SS (Nazi guards) with their rifle butts smashed the skulls of the smaller children as if they were chickens. I saw it,″ said Mrs. Kreigel, 46, now a grandmother living in Israel.
Mengele did experiments on twins and dwarfs.
Mrs. Kreigel said she, her twin sister Olga, her mother and another set of twins were kept for 10 days in a one-yard square cage where they were given daily injections.
They were later released, but the experiments continued. She said she was once taken to Mengele’s pathology laboratory where she saw rows of eyes mounted ″on a wall like a butterfly collection.″
Mengele’s experiments focused on twins and dwarfs in a search for the genetic secrets that he believed might enable him to produce racially pure Aryans, a hypothetical Germanic ethnic type, in larger numbers.
Vera Alexander, who is now 61, said she was a Jewish prisoner put in charge of a block of gypsy twins between the ages of three and five. After being experimented upon, she said, the children returned ill and infected with sores. One set of twins was stitched together like Siamese twins, she said.
Note: From checking other sources, Vera's surname is here misspelled, the official version is Kriegel, not "Kreigel".
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