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Auschwitz: Sephardic Jews
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The first Jews to arrive at Auschwitz were from the new state of Slovakia. 90,000 Jews lived in Slovakia (mainly in the capital Bratislava). Nazi sympathisers in the Slovakian government agreed to start the deportation of the Slovakian Jews in April 1942. The Slovakian government would pay the Nazi government 500 Reichmarks for each Jew deported from Slovakia. 60,000 Slovakian Jews were handed over to the Nazis at a cost of 30 million Reichsmarks.
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In December 1942, Professor Carl Clauberg came to the deathcamp Auschwitz and started his medical experimental activities. He injected chemical substances into wombs during his experiments. Thousands of Jewish and Gypsy women were subjected to this treatment. They were sterilized by the injections, producing horrible pain, inflamed ovaries, bursting spasms in the stomach, and bleeding. The injections seriously damaged the ovaries of the victims, which were then removed and sent to Berlin.
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The Polish government last year agreed with Jewish groups on a plan for better preserving the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex as a memorial, part of a wider effort to improve sometimes strained relations with the worldwide Jewish community. REUTERS
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In 1983 , French scholar George Wellers was one of the first to use German data on deportations to estimate the number killed at Auschwitz, arriving at 1.613 million dead, including 1.44 million Jews and 146,000 Catholic Poles. A larger study started around the same time by Franciszek Piper used time tables of train arrivals combined with deportation records to calculate 1.1 million Jewish deaths and 140,000-150,000 ethnic Polish victims, along with 23,000 Roma & Sinti (Gypsies). This number has met with "significant, though not complete" agreement among scholars.
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Most of the people murdered in Auschwitz were Jewish but not all. With his demented racial theories Hitler ... hated Slavs and Gypsies. From February 1943 many Gypsies were sent to Auschwitz. At first many died of disease but from May 1944 the Germans began deliberately killing them by injecting phenol into their hearts.
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January 27 marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz -- the Nazi death camp that has come to symbolize the horror of the Holocaust. An estimated 1.5 million people were murdered there -- most of them systematically in gas chambers. Nearly all the victims were Jews. Others included Gypsies, Poles, Catholics, homosexuals and Soviet POWs. For many, the anniversary carried special meaning, as few survivors are expected to be alive in 10 years' time.
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