

In 1943 she was sent to Auschwitz where her career flourished. It was clear then that she had a moral compass in her life but chose to ignore it. When her father could not dissuade her from taking up this role, he disowned her. In 1940 she was stationed at her first concentration camp. Bullied by her schoolmates and left with a feeling of abandonment when her mother committed suicide, she became fascinated by the Nazi Female Youth. If ever there was proof that evil could exist within beauty, she was surely it.īorn in Germany in 1923 she had quite an unhappy life.

Irma Grese is perhaps the most infamous and notorious guard that came out of Auschwitz. Others have felt touched gently by imploring fingers as they moved through the camp. Voices have been heard pleading for help and assistance as visitors have walked through the simple numbered bunk beds where so many sought refuge from their misery in sleep. Orbs and strange shapes have been recorded dancing about the mangled mounds of broken spectacles and redundant, battered suitcases. Others have reported that their cameras jammed as they tried to photograph the mountain of human hair shaved from people entering the camp. Often in tears, many have reported feeling tiny ghostly hands slip into theirs as they stop to look at the heaps of shoes taken from prisoners, a young girl’s fancy sandal and a baby’s tiny first shoes peeping from the pile. The gas chambers are now sealed with concrete and the displays kept simple, but there is much to see and shock.

The camp itself is now characterized by an eerie silence, few people speak but listen intently to the information guides as they move around the camp. Ironically, the legend inscribed over the gates Arbeit Macht Frei means work sets you free, surely a final insult. Both men, women and often teenage children who may know little of the camp’s history describe a palpable sorrow as you walk through its gates. The sadness of Auschwitz is often described as overwhelming. Many of these people are profoundly moved, whether it is the enormity of history that moves them or the throngs of souls lost, it is hard to say. Today the camps are a tribute to those who died and are visited by thousands every year. Many felt that to obliterate the camps completely was to obliterate the memory of something which should never be forgotten. Auschwitz I and II remained intact, however. It was not until the end of the war when they were liberated by British and American troops that the truth was revealed and the world hung its head in sorrow and shame.Īt the end of the war, most of the concentration camps were destroyed. Mengele began performing surgery on children and adults without any concern for their welfare.įew escaped the camps, but those who did inform the Allied forces of their conditions. With a massive pool of siblings and twins to operate upon, the evil Dr. The Nazis unfortunately were more imaginative and began to perform the most horrific experiments on those that entered the camps. Forced to work in freezing conditions, starved, suffering from infectious diseases, their life expectancy was only three months.Ītrocity after atrocity was committed until it was difficult to imagine what else could be done to these poor people. Those that were stronger did not survive long. Stripped of clothes, belongings, even the fillings in their teeth, the weak were sent to the gas chambers and thrown into mass graves. Jews, Russians, political prisoners, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Romani were sent to the camps for extermination. Named after a nearby town, its title now resonates with a different meaning and fills most who hear it with horror.īy 1941 the camps had become part of Hitler’s final solution to the Jewish question.
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Auschwitz was a series of concentration camps set up in Poland in 1940, to house political prisoners.
