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The camps

 

"the cries and the screams"
Barbara Stimler

 

"you could smell people being burnt"
Edith Birkin

 

"they never appeared again"
Edith Birkin

 

"if you were old or ill looking you went the other side"
Edith Birkin

 

"they were unwilling to deport the Jews"
Eugene Heimler

 

"they considered he took most of your life away"
Morris Frenkel

 

"they start shaving us everywhere"
Barbara Stimler

 

 

Hitler's plan to murder all European Jews was called "The Final Solution to the Jewish Question". The order to carry out the plan seems to have come from Hitler sometime during 1941.

Find out more in Background: The Camps

 
 

The Camps

"the cries and the screams"

"if you were old or ill looking you went the other side"

"they start shaving us everywhere"

"you could smell people being burnt"

"they were unwilling to deport the Jews"

"they never appeared again"

"they considered he took most of your life away"

Background: The Camps

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