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History. Auschwitz and Shoah. The unloading ramps and selections. Selections of mass Jewish transports took place on three railroad unloading platforms, or ramps. SS doctors made most of the decisions about who was qualified for labor, and who was killed immediately.
- The Extermination Procedure in The Gas Chambers
SS men escorted the men, women, and children selected for...
- Selections and lethal injections
Selections and lethal injections. The first selection in...
- The Extermination Procedure in The Gas Chambers
A photograph from the Auschwitz Album of selection at Auschwitz II-Birkenau on May 27, 1944. Selection (German: Selektion) was the process of designating inmates either for murder or forced labor at a Nazi concentration camp.
Nov 1, 2015 · The reason was the tattooing. After the selection, we all got tattoos, a series of numbers on our left arm that left me so humiliated and hurt mentally and physically. Only much later did we find out that the selecting SS officer was one of the most notorious doctors in Auschwitz, named Mengele.
Mar 3, 2023 · October 1939. Germans begin killing of people with disabilities. The systematic killing begins of those Germans whom the Nazis deem "unworthy of life." Groups of "consultants" visit hospitals and nursing homes and decide who is to die.
Mar 27, 2020 · Jewish women and children, some wearing the yellow Star of David patch on their chests, undergoing ‘selections’ at Auschwitz circa 1943. Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Some mothers, however,...
Seventy years ago today, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied southern Poland where, from 1942 on, the Nazis killed at least 960,000 Jews, 74,000 Poles ...
