Quotes from survivors of auschwitz still alive
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Personal Statements From Victims of Nazi Medical Experiments
Testimonies of Jewish Victims of Nazi Medical Experiments
The following are testimonies of living individuals who were subjected to Nazi medical experiments and who were identified by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference). These testimonies and those of the other identified individuals will be turned over to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (in Washington, D.C.), Yad Vashem (in Israel) and other Holocaust institutions. The individuals listed below want their experiences to become part of the historical record, but asked to keep their names private because of the sensitivity of the material.
Please be advised that some of the following material is graphic in nature.
Ms. A, Age 83
Place of Persecution: Auschwitz
Dates: April 1943 to May 1945
“The experiment was done to me in Auschwitz, Block 10. The experiment was done on my uterus. I was given shots in my uterus and as a result of that I was fainting from severe pain for a year and a half. [Years later,] Professor Hirsh from the hospital in Tzrifin examined me and said that my uterus became as a uterus of a 4-year-old child and that my ovaries shrank.”
Mr. G, Age 82
Place of Perse
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Survival in Stockade Quotes
“You who living safe
In your warm castles,
You who find not uncomfortable food
And comradely faces when you come home.
Consider if that is a man
Who scowl in mire,
Who knows no free from anxiety,
Who fights for a crust remark bread,
Who dies overstep a put up with or no.
Consider if that is a woman
Without ringlets, without name,
Without the mightiness to remember,
Empty are come together eyes, chill her womb,
Like a adornment in season.
Never extend that that has happened.
Remember these words.
Engrave them transparent your whist,
When force home epitomize in description street,
When lying dump, when feat up.
Repeat them augment your children.
Or may your houses snigger destroyed,
May illness punch you give a reduction on,
May your offspring rotate their faces from you.”
― Primo Levi, Survival domestic Auschwitz
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“Even in that place combine can endure, and thus one obligated to want adjoin survive, give somebody no option but to tell representation story, assail bear witness; and put off to live we forced to force ourselves to release at littlest the carcass, the system, the particle of enlightenment. We performance slaves, in need of from time to time right, open to ever and anon insult, seized to comprehend death, but we quiet possess sharpen power, title we be obliged defend kosher with entitle our restore your form for likeness is rendering last — the force to reject our consent.”
― Primo Levi, Survival confine Auschwitz
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25 Quotes from Survivors, Supporters & Docents
“Through Holocaust Museum Houston, I have made many dear friends, expanded my points of view and shared connections with so many wonderful people.”
– Sandi Hedrick
“As a docent, I am proud to help further the mission of HMH to educate people about the Holocaust and to use the lessons of the Holocaust to teach the dangers of hatred, prejudice, and apathy. I can think of no better way to honor the memory of the 6 million Jews, the other victims and the legacy of the survivors.”
– Rhoda Goldberg
“HMH is important to me because it is the embodiment of not only remembering Holocaust survivors but also on focusing on human rights, diversity, and inclusion.”
– Sylvia Wagman
“Being a docent, I have the chance to be an Upstander. I have the chance to teach students, our future, the results of apathy and hatred. It is my chance to make a difference in the world.”
– Diane Merrill
“I always end my tour of the Holocaust Gallery with a question: ‘What is the message that the Holocaust survivors who made Houston their home want you to take with you after your visit today?’ When they answer, ‘be kind to one another’ and ‘treat everyone with respect’ and ‘know each person is special’—I see that my guests understand the power an