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Auschwitz Part 2,Auschwitz Part 2

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Auschwitz, A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, and the Children of the Flames by Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel are three books that do not take long to read but provide excellent material to learn the history and accounts of what occurred during World War II. The twins of Dr. Mengele’s experiments if they came out a live, have memories impressed deeply among them. They were kept healthy; they were also the subjects of live scientific experiments. Experiments to determine if twins could feel what the other one was having done to it, killed both at the same time to see what the problem might be. People with hereditary deformities, given a live physical and then shot and then dissected to see what was going on. Their skeletons cooked to be preserved and shipped to Berlin’s Forensic University.

One thing I found very interesting is that I read Primo Levi’s account before the Doctor’s Eyewitness account, and he tells of how 20,000 left those who were healthy, leaving the sick in sick bay (which is where he was at). He never learned what happened to them on the march that the German soldiers took them on. I went on to read in Dr. Miklos Nyiszli’s account about that march. Where they ended up and what happened along the way. Historical novels that complimented each other and help us to see the big picture of what has happened in the history of our world.

I often wonder why things happen and how it could happen. When it comes to the Holocaust, I often ponder why didn’t the German people do anything, the same could be said about the Jews, why did they just go with them, not fight every inch of the way. I am not sure there is answer, perhaps a wish to believe in the good will of man kind, perhaps the overwhelming terror established along with the lies presented by the German SS. It’s hard to determine and one that each person can think through for themselves.

Whatever your thoughts on the issue of the holocaust, whatever your descent, whatever your age we must never forget. We must remember and teach teach our children and grandchildren so that through remembering we shall not repeat an atrocity that has left an unforgettable impression on our world. ,Auschwitz, A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, and the Children of the Flames by Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel are three books that do not take long to read but provide excellent material to learn the history and accounts of what occurred during World War II. The twins of Dr. Mengele’s experiments if they came out a live, have memories impressed deeply among them. They were kept healthy; they were also the subjects of live scientific experiments. Experiments to determine if twins could feel what the other one was having done to it, killed both at the same time to see what the problem might be. People with hereditary deformities, given a live physical and then shot and then dissected to see what was going on. Their skeletons cooked to be preserved and shipped to Berlin’s Forensic University.