Dr horst schumann biography of abraham

About one- half of all the inmates registered in Auschwitz, each year were Jews, Poles made up the majority of the rest. Jews from all over Europe began arriving in Auschwitz on deportation trains during the spring of Only a fraction of these people survived the on- arrival selections. By mid-all registered Jewish inmates had been moved from the Auschwitz main camp to the Birkenau camp.

Small numbers of Gypsies were registered in the Auschwitz main camp in and then deported en masse to a special compound in Birkenau, until their murder in August Gypsies, Soviet Prisoners of War, and Jews were considered the lowest- ranking inmates. In practice, all inmates at Auschwitz had to work. Forced labour was essential to the SS culture of inmate persecution as well as to economic priorities.

Inmates worked within the Auschwitz camps in administrative, service and clerical jobs, in skilled trades and crafts. Outside, they worked on roads, farms, swamps, fish hatcheries, factories, mines, chemical plants, armaments works, utilities, and other industrial concerns. The inmates received no payment of any kind, the SS, the German state, private industries used them as slaves.

In Auschwitz the Nazis pursued experiments in respect of sterilization of both men and women, from races the Nazis considered inferior. Professor Carl Clauberg and Dr. The experiments commenced duringinitially at Birkenau, but were transferred to Block 10, in the Auschwitz main camp, which had been specially vacated for this purpose. Read Edit View history.

Dr horst schumann biography of abraham

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References [ edit ]. External links [ edit ]. Holocaust in German-occupied Poland. Camps, ghettos, execution sites and attacks. Schumann, delivered in February to the Soviet Commission in the liberated camp:. In Decemberthe leader of my block announced that all men aged 18 to 30 were not going to work on the following day. Instead, as per the delivered list, they were supposed to go for an obligatory x-ray.

Prior to that, we were fully undressed. There was a level board installed in the machine, which was hitched up to the level of your sexual organs, and you needed to put your scrotum on it. Later they irradiated you with a large electric lamp, while you were standing, holding your hands on the small of your back. After we were all x-rayed, or — as the physicians called it — after sterilisation, we were sent to the work we did prior to that.

Two days later, myself and my colleague Szlemowicz were taken to the operating theatre. On that day, the whole group — eight people — had the left testicles removed, and later we were all hospitalised in Room No. When we were healed, I was discharged to the camp and sent to work in Block No. It was the first major state institution in Germany to be explicitly dedicated to treating, rather than just interning, mentally ill patients.

In the 19th century, the reform-orientated hospital was one of the most renowned institutions of its kind in Europe. Inas a Heil und Pflegeananstalt care and cure institution it had housed psychiatric patients. Inthe respected long time director Paul Nitsche was at the head of the Pirna-Sonnenstein state hospital. In Octoberthe mental home was officially closed.

A portion of the institution located behind the main buildings and not included as part of the killing centre, was used first as a military hospital, and then to house ethnic German refugees from Bessarabia. Another portion of the institution, also in the rear of the property, was retained as a regular mental hospital and assumed the name Mariaheim.

Between earlyand June of that year, the part of the castle located in buildings at the front of the property was converted into a euthanasia killing centre. Building 3, served as a reception area for the arriving victims and buildingsprovided office space and staff quarters. Building 2 contained the actual killing facility, including the gas chamber and a crematorium with two stationary coke-fired ovens located in the basement.

A high brick-wall on two sides of the complex shielded it from outside observation, while a tall hoarding was erected to serve a similar purpose on the other two sides.