Resumo de Auschwitz, Today

AUSCHWITZ, TODAY The easiest way to arrive at Owiecim ?the place where is found the old field of concentration of Auschwitz-Birkenau? is in car or in bus from Krakow. Students you dressed with loaded, strong colors of cameras and teams of filming. The official name is State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Since 1947, The place functions like a memorial. In this territory the major field of Nazi concentration was installed; was a Jews extermination place, Polish, gypsies, Homosexual and citizens of other groups or countries that, according to the Nazism, they should be eliminated. Arweitz macht frei (The work does free) says an inscription that is conserved in the door of entrance. We travel through Auschwitz-Birkenau with Jaroslaw Mensfelt, Responsible for Files in the Department of Publications, Information and Press. Mensfelt, as many Poles, although invoke the past utilizes the present time. Already in August of 1939, Here in Poland, is spoken of the war. Two weeks before the Germans attack us, the Polish government, to be protected, firm two military agreements, with France and with England. In the meantime, the Germans establish a secret pact with the Russians. The field has remained just as was. Sufrían hunger, typhus, the brutality of the kapos and, from 1942, the gas chambers. ¿What signifies Auschwitz for each person that names it? For the Poles, is the place where Poles died. For the Jews, is the Shoá. The Germans always burned the bodies for leave not tracks. It is known that most of the ashes was thrown al I laugh Vístula or al Sava; another part was utilized like guarantee, fertilizing. There are two hundred photographs taken by the own Germans, official photos, that constitute a book called Eviction of the Hungarian Jews. Mensfelt speaks: "In the summer of 1944 takes place here the largest killing in the history of Auschwitz, when in less than two months, toward ends of the war already practically loss, The Nazis deport to Auschwitz to 437.000 thousand Hungarian Jews. To the majority they kill them al to arrive. In German, they refer to them as Arweitz unfeige, that is to say, "the useless for the work". They are women, many pregnant, children, elderly and sick. The 80% it is murdered in the gas chambers. The killing in the gas chambers is, above all for the Jews, Splits of that final solution of the Jewish question". While we travel through with Jaroslaw Mensfelt the different buildings, the barracks, the gas chambers, In an immense wall we see a blank large photo and black of something that could be a factory: "The enormous factory that is seen is Ingefarben, call Bunawerken. Buna, in German, Means "synthetic rubber". They build here that factory because of the slave labor availability and because is outside of the reach of the allied airplanes. For everyone is easier to leave the solution of the Jewish problem in Nazi hands. The diabolic irony of the message directed to whom of there they do not come out with life was a routine question. There are tin platings. "They contained cristalitos of cyanide, that was utilized as a pesticide, before the war and during her, like another human way to kill beings ?account our guide?. They produced it in Germany. The Germans packed it and they sold it. The firms textiles paid fifty pfennigs by a kilogram, and they transformed it into fabric. "The guide counts us that in that place the doctor Klauber did its women sterilization experiments. And it survives. The place where the commemorations are carried out. This place functioned like gas chamber and crematorium, until they dynamited it, in January of 1945. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the major center of Nazi extermination, Where they died between a million a hundred thousand and a million and middle of people, the majority of Jewish origin. Among the registered there was Poles, gypsies, Prisoners of Soviet war and of other nationalities. Was composed for three main fields (and forty subcampos) : Auschwitz I, a center of administration, death and lodging of prisoners; Auschwitz II (Birkenau), where was annihilated in gas chambers to the majority of the prisoners, and Auschwitz III (Buna - Monowitz), It utilized as the slave work field. Stanislaw Ryniak, that passed away recently, at the age of eighty-eight was the first registered prisoner in Auschwitz, Where it arrived after to have been arrested by the Gestapo in 1940, a year after the German invasion to Poland. Was member of the Polish resistance. Ana Frank (then transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where died of typhus), the Prime Italian writer Levi, The Polish saint Maximiliano Kolbe and the Nobel prize of the Peace Elie Wiesel were some of the known prisoners that passed for this field, among many other. In 1979, Auschwitz-Birkenau was declared world heritage by the Unesco. Donanfer

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