Transportation and Selection
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Transportation to Auschwitz consisted of mainly loading Jews in either cattle cars or wagons. Seventy-five to eighty people were jammed together in the cattle cars. It was so packed you couldn't even sit down! The wagons were no better. In both you couldn't eat, drink, or use the bathroom during the whole trip. The only thing they could use was the occasional pail found in the back. Escape was impossible even if they knew what was happening. When asked why they didn't fight back most Jews said they didn't think anything bad was going to happen. |
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| When the prisoners arrived at Auschwitz they went through a process called the "Selection". This was how the SS officers chose upon arrival who was fit to work and who was fit to die. Dr. Josef Mengele normally did this job. Many people he picked to die he used them for his experiments. If he told you to go to the left you would be murdered in a gas chamber immediately. The old, young, sick, or frail would be told it was a shower and eagerly accepted. The healthy, skilled men and women went to the right to live.... |