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Dr. Mengele's “Medical Experiments” on Twins in the Birkenau Gypsy Camp

Carlo Mattogno

Translated by Carlos W. Porter

1. The “crimes” of Dr. Mengele

In 1997, Helena Kubica, researcher at the Auschwitz Museum, published a long article entitled “Dr. Mengele und seine Verbrechen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau” (“Dr. Mengele and His Crimes in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp”).1 The author sifted through the numerous documents on Dr. Mengele’s activities at Birkenau preserved in the archives of the Museum in search of documentary proof of his presumed criminal medical experiments on twins. The situation is as follows.

Dr. Josef Mengele entered service at Auschwitz on 30 May 1943. His direct superior, SS-Standortarzt (garrison doctor) Dr. Eduard Wirts, appointed him Lagerarzt (camp doctor) at the so-called “Zigeunerfamilienlager” (gypsy family camp), Sector BIIe of Birkenau.2

He was particularly interested in the study of twins, especially identical twins, organising a daycare center solely for this purpose:

“In the gypsy camp, he caused Barracks 29 and 31 and a nursery – a  sort of daycare center and preparatory school –  to house not only the children under his observation (these lived in Barracks 31), but all gypsy children up to 6 years of age.

A total of several hundred children were housed in the nursery school from 8 to 14 years of age, where they were supervised by many prisoners. [...]. The barracks used as a nursery school were in slightly better condition than the others, entirely plastered on the inside, decorated with coloured images representing fairy tales. For a short time, the children who lived there received a better diet – milk, white bread, vegetables and meat broth concentrates, even marmalade and chocolate [...].

The area behind Barracks 31 was enclosed and a playground was installed, with sandboxes, merry-go-round, swings and gymnastic equipment.”3

Naturally, for H. Kubica, all this was intended solely for “propaganda purposes.”4 We need only inquire, however, for whom this alleged propaganda was intended, since not even the delegate from the Red Cross who visited Auschwitz in September 1944 was permitted to visit Birkenau Camp.5

And how about the diet, incredibly rich for a concentration camp – as confirmed by former inmate Anna Lipka6 – was this also solely intended for “propaganda purposes”?

This scene is not easy to reconcile with the panoply of the unprecedented crimes attributed to Dr.  Mengele, but Kubica has decisive “proof” to hand.

An epidemic of noma faciei, a gangrenous illness affecting mostly children, broke out in the Zigeunerlager in the summer of 1943. The patients were transferred on Dr. Mengele’s order to an isolated barracks in the hospital of the gypsy camp and, we are assured by H. Kubica,

“many of the sick children were killed, always by order of Dr. Mengele, and their bodies were taken to the institute of hygiene of the Waffen-SS at Rajsko for histopathological research. There preparations of the individual organs were prepared and preserved in glass, even including the entire head of a child, among others, for the SS academy of medicine in Graz.”7

From the pertinent footnote, we learn that our information on the entire affair is based exclusively on post-war testimonies. In this context, the author mentions a single document, reproduced below. The document is a bill of lading to the Institute of Hygiene of the Waffen-SS (SS-Hygiene-Institut) of Rajsko, Hygiene and Bacteriology Section, relating to the “head of a cadaver” (Kopf einer Leiche) taken from a “12-year old child” (12-jähriges Kind). Nothing is known of the cause of death of the child; the only thing that is certain is that the request for histological examination originated from the H-Krankenbau Zigeunerlager Auschwitz II, BIIe, that is, the prisoner hospital of the gypsy camp. The explanation advanced by H. Kubica is clearly a pretext. Noma faciei (or cancrum oris) is a disease which destroys the orofacial tissues. It currently strikes chiefly sub-Saharan African children between the ages of 2 and 16; the mortality rate, in the absence of adequate treatment, ranges between 70 and 90%.8 One may therefore reasonably suppose that, at Birkenau, in the years 1943-1944, the mortality rate of young gypsy children stricken with noma was even higher. In 1943, 2,587 children below the age of 10 in the gypsy camp died,9 including practically all those suffering from noma.

Mengele Document

A bill of lading to the Institute of Hygiene of the Waffen-SS (SS-Hygiene-Institut) of Rajsko, Hygiene and Bacteriology Section, relating to the “head of a cadaver” (Kopf einer Leiche) taken from a “12-year old child” (12-jähriges Kind).

But then, what occasion was there to kill children who were inexorably dying of disease?

The obvious response to this rhetorical question is supplied by H. Kubica herself where she cites the testimony of Dr. Jan Čespiva, who had worked as a physician in the gypsy camp hospital:

“There was an outbreak of noma. The disease caused entire pieces of flesh to fall off, also affecting the lower jaw. I had never seen gangrene of the face like that. The crania of the children were prepared for the SS Academy at Graz. I know because we wrote the address. The heads were preserved in formaldehyde, the bodies were destroyed in Crematory III.”10

It is therefore obvious that the child in question died of noma and that the German physicians hoped to find a cure by studying the heads of children who had died of this disease.

And this request for histological examination is the only documentary “proof” of the “crimes” of Dr. Mengele to be found in the archive of the Auschwitz Museum! Not much for the so-called “Angel of Death” of Auschwitz, and H. Kubica, apparently aware of this, as a last resort cites the “eyewitness” so decisive to her,  Miklos Nyiszli, about whom, more below.

After creating the school already mentioned above, Dr. Mengele created an “experimental laboratory,” the location where the “camp research on the birth of twins and congenital anomalies”11 was performed – in a word, the ogre’s lair –  to the head of which he appointed Dr. Bertold Epstein, from Prague. His assistant was another Czech, Dr. Rudolf Weiskopf (Vitek).12 Two camp inmates also worked in Dr. Mengele’s laboratory: a Polish anthropology Ph.D., Martyna Puzina,13 and the Czech painter Dinah Gottliebova, who produced drawings of the parts of the body of the children under examination.14

The activities of this “experimental laboratory” are well documented:

“The archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum contain numerous documents signed by Dr. Mengele, such as requests for analysis by the Institute of Hygiene.”15

but no document attests to Dr. Mengele’s presumed crimes. This is not at all surprising, considering the activities performed in his laboratory:

“As shown by reports of inmates who performed tasks in the twins block, as well as reports from the twins themselves, the individual pairs of twins were subjected by Dr. Mengele to research of any kind, which constituted the starting point for the performance of the most varied types of experiments on the same. In general, they were subjected to anthropometric, morphological, psychiatric and radiological research. The anthropological research was initially performed in Dr. Mengele’s laboratory in the sauna of the gypsy camp. In November 1944, this laboratory was transferred to barracks 15, in the vicinity of the men’s hospital (BIIf). Every individual part of the body of the persons subjected to examination was measured in the most accurate manner: the twins were measured in pairs, comparing the results. The documentation contained annotations of the shape of the mouth, the nose, the muscles of the ears, the colour of the eyes and skin of the individual parts of the body.16

There was no criminal activity, therefore, and it is easy to see what M. Puzyna and D. Gottliebova’s tasks consisted of:  anthropometrical studies and anatomical drawings.

H. Kubica adds:

“All the documentation, that is, photographs, drawings, descriptions and analytical results, were preserved in individual folders for every person examined,”17

and she published a few of these documents. Notwithstanding this abundant documentation, H. Kubica notes:

“Nevertheless, unfortunately, it has not been possible to find any document showing how many gypsy twins passed through Dr. Mengele’s laboratory.”18

But a few pages later, the Polish researcher states:

“The Archives of the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau also contain a document which contains personal data and copies of anthropological studies on 295 inmates – Greek, Hungarian, Dutch, French and Italian Jews – upon whom Mengele performed experiments. This list also contains the names of 117 Hungarian Jewish pairs of twins in the women’s sector of the camp. As for male twins from Barracks 15 of Camp BIIf, we know from the report on one pair of twins that there were 107 of them, aged from age 4 to 60.”19

Thus, the total number of documented twins available to Dr. Mengele amounted to between 402 and 412. What happened to them?

A series of daily reports, not mentioned by H. Kubica, although they can be found precisely at the Auschwitz Museum, the Arbeitseinsatz (assignment of labour) of the Birkenau camp,20 reports starting from 28 July up to 3 October 1944 (the reports are complete only for the month of August) bears the heading “Zwillinge für Versuchzwecke” (twins for experimental purposes). In the 35 reports which are preserved, the number of these inmates never varies: it always reads 49. This absence of variation over a period of more than three months allows one to rule out any continual replacement of “guinea pigs”, and is fully compatible with the “anthropometric, morphological, psychiatric and radiological examinations” mentioned above.

H. Kubica, by contrast, claims that the fate of these twins was quite a different one:

“The last stop in the search for several pairs of twins or individual persons was the analysis of the individual organs of the body during the autopsy. To this end, these persons were killed at Dr. Mengele’s order or by Dr. Mengele himself, by an injection of phenol in the heart. The bodies were taken to the dissecting room.”21

At this point, the Polish researcher unveils her “decisive witness”: none other than the notorious impostor Miklos Nyiszli! The whole fable of Dr. Mengele’s “crimes” originates from the ravings of this mythomaniac, to whom I shall return in greater detail in the section below devoted to him.

Notwithstanding the absurd lies he told, this person is nonetheless held in high esteem in the official historiography, but, in a sort of veiled schizophrenia, only as regards his accusations against Dr. Mengele. And in fact, his testimony constitutes the “demonstrative” framework for the accusations of every book on the subject, starting with Gerald L. Posner and John Ware on Dr.  Mengele,22 one of the most important, also mentioned by H. Kubica. The two authors cite him on pages 19, 20, 26, 33, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 53 and 152. In fact, the entire chapter on the “crimes” of Dr. Mengele at Auschwitz is built upon Nyiszli’s “testimony”! Even Robert Jay Lifton mentions him repeatedly.23 H. Kubica cites him just as often. She even reproduces his photograph24 and cites him several times.25

But Dr. Mengele’s “crimes” are not only not attested to by one single document: they are even overtly disproven by absolutely indisputable facts. In his description of the first autopsy allegedly performed by him upon a pair of twins, Nyiszli writes:

“My legs are trembling with excitement. I have discovered the most monstrous secret of Third Reich medical science. They don’t only kill with gas; they kill with chloroform injections to the heart as well.”26

If this had been true, Dr. Mengele would have proceeded to liquidate all the witnesses of his alleged criminal activity – his collaborators who also worked with twins – before leaving Auschwitz on 17 January 1945. He had enough time! But he allowed all the “eyewitnesses” of his alleged crimes to survive, i.e.:

– Dr. Bertold Epstein, one of the signers of the famous appeal by former Auschwitz inmates dated 4 March 1945;27

– Dr. Rudolf Weisskopf, liberated from Bergen-Belsen;28

– Martyna Puzyna, interviewed by G.L.Posner and J. Ware in June 1985;29

– Dinah Gottliebova, who moved to the USA in 1947, where she still lives;30

– Miklos Nyiszli, the purported essential “witness”, who, in his capacity as the physician of the so-called crematory “Sonderkommando,” would have shared in the “terrible secret” of the mass gassings, was also casually allowed to survive!

But what about the twins? What happened to the victims of Dr. Mengele’s experiments? Were they all killed en masse? Quite the contrary!

H. Kubica informs us that, in 1984, these twins were still numerous enough to form their own association:

“In 1984, the victims of Dr. Mengele’s experiments, who had lived in the children’s camp, formed the organisation Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiment Survivors (CANDLES), with the self-appointed task of documenting Mengele’s crimes, informing the world, capturing the “Angel of Death” and dragging him before a court”31

The Website of the association lists almost 400 twins from Auschwitz.32 H. Kubica also presents a list of twins from Auschwitz, consisting of over 320 names.33 The great majority of them were twins, but some were merely siblings, such as the sisters Tatiana Liliana and Alessandra Bucci. Both were deported to Auschwitz on 29 March 1943. The first, born on 19 September 1937, was registered under number 76484; the second, born 1 July 1939, was registered under number 6483.34  Luigi Ferri, born on 9 September 1932, was deported in August 1944 and registered under number B-7525.35 Sergio De Simone, born at Naples on 29 November 1937, was deported to Auschwitz on 29 March 1944, at the age of nearly 7 years, and registered under number 179614.36

No official historian has yet succeeded in explaining why these children were not gassed immediately upon arrival. In reality, it is not so surprising, because on 16 January 1945, in just the men’s camp at Birkenau, there were 770 “Jugendliche bis 18. Jhr.” (youths aged up to 18 years), in addition to 400 “Invaliden” (invalids)!37 When the Soviets arrived, there were still 205 children at Birkenau, from just a few months up to 15 years of age, many of them twins.38

The three documents mentioned above, the list of the CANDLES organisation, the list compiled by H. Kubica and the Soviet list of 1945, in addition to the Soviet list of inmates liberated at Birkenau,39 permit the compilation of a list of 543 twins having passed through Auschwitz:40 of these, 376 survived until the liberation of the camp; four died in the following months, one died on the evacuation transport on 27 January 1945 and twelve perished during the existence of the camp. Nothing is known of the remaining 154.

In just three cases, H. Kubica notes: «Starb im Lager infolge der durchgeführten Experimente» (“died [not: killed] in the camp as a result of the experiments performed [on them],”41 so that these three would seem to constitute Dr. Mengele’s victims. It goes without saying that such an assumption is in no way backed up by proof of Mengele's personal complicity.

In conclusion, the known facts are as follows:

Dr. Mengele’s alleged crimes are not proven by any document. No document shows that Mengele ever killed even one single child, or that one single child was ever killed on his orders. The essential and sole witness, the one upon whose testimony the whole accusation is based, was an extraordinarily creative impostor. Dr. Mengele’s closest collaborators, including the presumed essential witness, and at least 543 of his “victims” were allowed to live: but how, then, are we to believe seriously in the fairy tale of the “Angel of Death” of Auschwitz?

Dr. Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele (1911-1979), German physician and SS Hauptsturmführer. Photo taken by a police photographer in 1956 in Buenos Aires for Mengele's Argentine identification document
[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

2. Miklos Nyiszli’s False Testimony

In an article on Dr. Mengele published in 1986,42 Zdenek Zofka discussed the quality of the anti-Mengele testimony, writing:

“The Mengele phenomenon presents a few mysteries. The available sources are few. Almost all the written notes capable of providing information on Mengele’s crimes at Auschwitz have been destroyed. We must have recourse almost exclusively to eyewitness testimonies.  [But] testimonies, forty years later,43 are always problematical – all the more so in an extreme case such as this one. In the minds of many former inmates, “harrowing reality and nightmares have inextricably merged together over a period of forty years.” All too often, it is impossible to be sure that their recollections really refer to Mengele at all: it is all too often possible to show that Mengele has been confused with other SS physicians. Almost all the inmates state that they were selected by Mengele on the ramp. But camp physicians performed the selections in shifts: Mengele performed no more selections than any of the others. One gets the impression that Mengele’s name has gotten separated from his person. For the inmates, he became synonymous with all Auschwitz camp physicians as such.”44

Zofka then added:

“As has already been stated, the testimonies against Mengele must be treated with great caution. A number of incorrect statements can be explained on the grounds of mistaken identity, in which Mengele had gotten confused with other camp physicians or SS guards. Some witnesses in their statements were certainly motivated by self-importance and attention-seeking. Finally, even certain ‘exaggerations’ can be explained as innocent attempts to communicate and render the atrocity that was Auschwitz understandable -- at least to a certain extent -- to persons living later who hadn’t experienced it. Since Mengele was never tried, it has not been possible to put individual witnesses to the test. Even at the Mengele trial in Jerusalem in February 1985, rigorous cross-examination was waived for psychological reasons which were, after all, only too understandable – the need to recall to mind the horrors of Auschwitz was no doubt sufficiently agonising. Nevertheless, clarification of Mengele’s crimes at Auschwitz requires a critical and detailed examination of the testimonies.”45

But the critical examination undertaken by the author to “assess the individual crimes attributed to Mengele as more or less probable46 considers only obviously false, poorly supported accusations and does not in any way probe Miklos Nyiszli, whose testimony is, in the author’s view, “of fundamental importance”47 – so much so that the author cites it repeatedly.48

It therefore remains only critically to assess the statements of this fundamentally important witness to the alleged crimes of Dr. Mengele.

Miklos Nyiszli wrote a memoir published in Hungarian in 1946 entitled Dr. Mengele boncolóorvosa voltam az auschwitz-i krematóriumban (I Was Dr. Mengele’s Anatomical Physician in the Auschwitz Crematorium.)49 The work was later translated into French, German, English, Polish and Italian, rising to prominence in the Holocaust historiography of the 1960s.

Nyiszli claims that he reached Birkenau by train with a trainload of Jews deported from Hungary, in May of 1944 – May 29th, to be exact – as shown by the registration number A-8450, with which he was tattooed on that same day upon his arrival at the camp. After spending a few days in Sector BIIf of Birkenau, on 3 or 5 June (his chronology is contradictory), he was assigned as physician to Sonderkommando of the crematoria, under Dr. Mengele’s direct supervision, where he remained until January 1945. But in his sworn statement dated 8 October 1947,50 Nyiszli asserts that he reached Auschwitz on 19 May 1944 and that he was immediately transferred to the “Buna-Monowitz” camp, where he remained between 20 May and 5 June. These two versions of his arrival at Auschwitz stand in total mutual contradiction. But this is nothing compared to the wave of contradictions, absurdities, historical falsifications and various impostures to be found in his work, which was published in Italian under the title Medico ad Auschwitz and later under a different title: Sopravvissuto a Mengele:51 in my cursory study dedicated to this self-proclaimed “eyewitness”, I listed 120 of them.52

Let us now summarise the most salient of these nonsensical claims.53

Nyiszli provides a completely invented history of the Birkenau crematoria, even stating that they were built during the winter of 1939-1940, when Auschwitz didn’t even exist yet.

His description of the ovens of Crematoria II and III (which he refers to as 1 and 2) is also completely afactual. He speaks, in fact, of 15 individual furnaces located in a room 150 metres long, while the actual room in question was only 30 metres long, equipped with five furnaces, each with three muffles.

The alleged gas chamber, a room (Leichenkeller 1) 30 metres long, becomes, for Nyiszli, 200 metres long [but no width given]; Nyiszli also describes an “adjacent room” which never existed.

The small freight elevator (Aufzug) located in the vestibule of the subterranean part of the crematorium is transformed, in Nyiszli’s narrative, into four powerful lifts.

What Nyiszli says about the crematory capacity of the crematory ovens is technically impossible and historically nonsensical. He speaks of the cremation of 3 bodies in 20 minutes in one muffle, in each of the 15 muffles of Crematoria II and III, corresponding to a theoretical capacity of 3,240 bodies in 24 hours, which, for Nyiszli, however, becomes, incomprehensibly, 5,000. Therefore, according to him, the total capacity of the four Birkenau crematoria was 20,000 bodies per day. All this is absurd: in the coke-fired Topf ovens of Auschwitz-Birkenau, 20 minutes would not even have sufficed to vaporise the water contained in a single body. The real capacity of such installations, as declared by Topf engineer Kurt Prüfer, who designed the furnaces, and Karl Schultze, who designed the blowers, was one single body per muffle per hour, or one ninth as much as asserted by “eyewitness” Nyiszli.

Moreover, while Crematoria II and III had a total of 30 muffles, Crematoria IV and V had only 16, but Nyiszli nevertheless attributes a capacity of 5,000 bodies per day each to this pair of crematoria as well. Therefore, one single muffle in Crematoria IV-V had almost double the capacity of the same muffle in Crematoria II-III, but, according to Holocaust historiography, the furnaces in Crematoria IV and V were less efficient than those in Crematoria II and III. For example, at the Höss trial, the expert Roman Dawidowski stated that a load of 3-5 bodies in one muffle burned in 20-30 minutes in Crematoria II-III, but in 30-40 minutes in Crematoria IV-V.54 It goes without saying that Dawidowski’s “expert opinion” has the same value as the Polish-Soviet “expert opinion” on the 4 million deaths, in which he himself, Dawidowski, likewise concurred.55

Based on the absurd cremation capacity of 5,000 bodies in 24 hours for each crematorium, Nyiszli has built an arithmetically fantastic history of the mass gassings. Here are a few examples:

  • The inmates in Sector BIId, 10,500 people, according to Nyiszli, were gassed and cremated in a single day in Crematoria III and IV (= 5,250 bodies in 24 hours each). In reality, even with a theoretical continuous duty cycle of 24 hours per day (which in practice is unattainable),56 these installations would have required at least 19 days for the cremation of such a large number of bodies.
  • 4,500 gypsies were gassed and cremated in one single night in Crematoria II and III, that is, 2,250 in 12 hours. This many cremations would in fact have required over six days.
  • The 20,000 gassing victims from the ghetto of Theresienstadt were cremated in 48 hours in Crematoria II and III (= 5,000 bodies in 24 hours each). In actual fact, that many cremations would have required over 27 days.

Nyiszli claims that flames could often be seen shooting from the crematory chimneys, which is technically impossible.57

The gassing technique described by Nyiszli is completely invented, based on the erroneous supposition that Zyklon B (the alleged homicidal agent) was chlorine (rather than hydrocyanic acid). Since chlorine is heavier than air,58 Nyiszli imagined that, in an area in which it was released in large quantities, the chlorine would spread from the floor to the ceiling, as if the area were being filled with water. As a result, he claims that the bodies, in the “gas chamber”, “were piled up in a mass up to the ceiling”, because “the gas first fills the lowers strata of air and then moves slowly upwards”. The victims therefore climbed on each others’ shoulders to get closer to the ceiling and escape the gas so as to survive for a short time longer. But hydrocyanic acid vapours are slightly lighter than air,59 therefore the diffusion of the gas as described by Nyiszli is physically impossible.60

This absurdity was later appropriated lock, stock and barrel by the plagiarist Filip Müller, another self-described “eyewitness” who shamelessly plagiarized Nyiszli’s work.61

In a letter to the American translator of his memoirs, Nyiszli declared that he had discovered that the name “cyklon” (sic) was derived from the abbreviation of its principal ingredients: CYanid, ChLOr and Nitrogen, stating that there were two types of “cyklon”, Type A, which was an insecticide, and Type B, which was used for the homicidal gassings. This is another stupid fantasy. “Zyklon” in German is not an acronym, but, rather, an ordinary word meaning “cyclone”. And not only did Zyklon B not contain chlorine, but the German word for nitrogen is “Stickstoff”!

As for Zyklon A, use of this product was discontinued in Germany in the 1920s, when it was superseded by Zyklon B.

Nyiszli mentions eight extermination operations in the alleged gas chamber and in the vicinity of the “cremation pits”, at which he claims to have been personally present. Adding up the number of victims indicated by Nyiszli, we obtain a total of 605,000 persons, but he claims to have personally seen two million people enter the “gas chambers” with his own eyes. But in fact, near the “cremation pits”, the final destination for the “excess numbers from the Jewish ramp,” that is, those for whom there was no room in the over-filled gas chambers, 650,000 Jews were, according to him, killed with a bullet in the back of the neck, which is to say, that more than the total of all the gassing victims for the excess numbers of whom the “cremation pits” were supposed to have been dug in the first place. 

Based on the data provided by this “eyewitness”, we get over 30 million people, all cremated in these “cremation pits” alone!

Nyiszli’s chronology is purely fictitious, as deduced from the numerous contradictions it contains.  For example, the presumed homicidal mass gassings ceased definitively on 17 November 1944, but 20,000 Jews from the ghetto of Theresienstadt were gassed, starting on that date.

One day in August, Nyiszli met his wife and daughter in Sector BIIc, but this meeting took place after the gassing of the gypsy camp (BIIe), which, for Nyiszli, occurred in the last ten days of September. What is more, according to his chronology, this meeting occurred in combination with that of Camp BIIc, and yet there was an interval of at least 26 days between the two alleged events.

Nyiszli moreover claims that the crematoria were located 2 kilometers from Birkenau camp, while in reality they were located inside the camp, and that the so-called Kanada warehouse barracks was not the Effektenlager (the camp warehouse containing the personal effects of the inmates), but, rather, a collection of rubbish which burned continuously!

In short, Nyiszli knew nothing of the alleged “Bunker 2”: according to him, this Polish farmhouse was not transformed into a homicidal gas chamber by the SS, but, rather, into an “undressing room” for the victims of the “cremation pits”, who were then killed with a pistol shot to the back of the neck.

This overall picture, although highly condensed, shows clearly that Miklos Nyiszli was a false witnesss. The Holocaust historical industry recognised this immediately, but, in a sort of “see no evil” posture, they prefer to continue utilising Nyiszli’s “testimony” in support of the alleged crimes of Dr. Mengele.

In 2002, Charles D. Provan wrote an article entitled Miklos Nyiszli and His Auschwitz Book in a New Light62 in which, based on research considered fundamental by himself, he attempted to justify the absurdities proffered by the self-proclaimed “eyewitness” (which Provan magnanimously referred to as “errors”), asserting that Nyiszli’s book was not a historical record, but a novel. This claim is based on two erroneous assertions:

1) that the first edition of Nyiszli’s book appeared between 16 February and 5 April 1947 in the Budapest newspaper Világ (World);

2) that the same newspaper, in its edition of 30 September 1947, stated that Nyiszli’s book was a novel.

In reality, as I have already mentioned, Nyiszli’s first edition was published in 1946. Moreover, the newspaper Világ, mentioned by Provan, refers to Nyiszli’s book as an “élménregény”, which means, not “a novel based on one’s own personal experiences”, but, rather, “a novel of experience”, that is, a real experience so exceptional in nature as almost to resemble a novel.

That this is the correct interpretation is proven beyond doubt by the Affidavit forming the preamble to the first edition of the book:

“I, the undersigned, a doctor of medicine, Nyiszli Mikloś, ex-inmate of the concentration camp, bearer of tattoo number A 8450, in this book, which has just been published, a work which contains, in itself, the darkest pages of human history, free from all passion, without the slightest exaggeration, write as direct spectator and actor of the activities of the crematoria and funeral pyres of Auschwitz, in the fires in which [sic] millions of fathers, mothers and children disappeared.”63

The Affidavit closes with these words:

“Oradea-Nagyvárad, month of March, 1946. Dr. Nyiszli Mikloś.”

There is not the slightest doubt that Nyiszli described his book as an historical narrative; in fact, he explicitly stated that it was written “free from all passion, in accordance with the truth, without the slightest exaggeration”.

In this context, even if Provan’s interpretation were correct (and it is not), it would be improper to attribute greater value to the opinion of an unknown journalist writing in September 1947 than to the Affidavit of the author himself, writing in March 1946.

Therefore, the excuse that the book is a “novel” does not hold water and Nyiszli remains an impostor. This is shown no less clearly by another important fact.  Provan writes:

“Although Dr. Nyiszli was sent as a witness at the IG-Farben trial at Nuremberg, he did not testify, probably because he was only at Monowitz for two weeks and could only supply information of little value. He was allowed to return to Romania during the course of the same trial.”64

In effect, the IG-Farben trial records contain no mention of Miklos Nyiszli being excused; he is not even mentioned.65 Notwithstanding the simple fact that he never testified, upon returning to Romania, he immediately proceeded to write a series of articles entitled Tanu voltam Nürnbergen (I Was a Witness at Nuremberg) in which he pretended to have been interrogated by the Soviet representative of the defendant Emanuel Minskoff, quoting whole dialogues entirely invented by  Nyiszli. The first of these mendacious articles appeared in the Világ newspaper on 18 April 1948.

It is impossible to ascribe good faith to this “eyewitness,” who was and remains a mere impostor.

In consequence, the essential eyewitness testimony of Dr. Mengele’s alleged crimes at Auschwitz crumbles inexorably, and the rest of the legend along with it.

APPENDIX

Table 1 – Name Table of Children Found by the Soviets at Birkenau66

Registration number

Family name

Given name

Sex

Age

Nationality

Country of origin

Arrival at Auschwitz

?

?

V.L.

M

10

Polish

 

12 Aug. 1944

78254

Abrahamson

Helli

F

10

Jewish

Holland

June 1944

A-7739

Adler

Mano

M

12

Jewish

Hungary

May 1944

A-26885

Ajzenberg

J.I.

F

8

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

?

Altmann

B.

F

3

German

 

June 1944

B-5405

Apelbaum

Edek

M

8

Jewish

Poland

July 1944

B-5406

Apelbaum

Milek

M

8

Jewish

Poland

July 1944

?

Bauer 

Sary

F

15

 

Hungary

July 1944

A-26857

Beer

Pawlonna

F

8

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

?

Bein

Piroska

F

15

Bl. 10

Hungary

?

A-25981

Benger

Eva

F

13

Jewish

Hungary

3 Nov. 1944

B-2780

Bierman

Ephraim

M

14

Jewish

Poland

2 Jul. 1944

B-14006

Binet

Robert

M

5

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

B-14005

Binet

Gaspar

M

6

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

A-20851

Binet

Martha

F

3

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

A-7199

Bleier

Edit

F

9

Jewish

Hungary

July 1944

A-12080

Bleier

Ernö

M

9

Jewish

Hungary

July 1944

B-14615

Bleier

Istvan

M

14

Jewish

Hungary

Beginning of July 1944

B-13979

Blum

Palko

M

6

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

A-26847

Blum

Vera

F

11

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

No number

Bodanska

H.G.

F

6 ½

Polish

 

born in the camp

?

Borowski

J.V.

M

3

Polish

 

12 Oct. 1944

B-14003

Braun

Peter

M

10 months

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

A-26840

Braun

Judith

F

11

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

76484

Buci67

Liana

F

7

Jewish

Italy

June 1944

76483

Buci68

Andrea

M

7

Jewish

Italy

June 1944

B-13986

Burger

Franz

M

6

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

B-13987

Burger

Thomas

M

11

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

A-7057

Čengeri

L.F.

F

7

Jewish

Hungary

2 Jun. 1944

A-7058

Čengeri

J.T.

F

7

Jewish

Hungary

2 Jun. 1944

A-7264

Chybik

Ilse

F

14

Jewish

Austria

28 Jun. 1944

?

Cinsk

Jurek

M

6

 

Poland

?

A-9746

German

Marta

F

14

Jewish

Hungary

10 Jun. 1944

A-9745

German

Katalin

F

14

Jewish

Hungary

10 Jun. 1944

A-26877

Diamant

Eva

F

12

Jewish

Hungary

2 Nov. 1944

192752

Donten

A.R.

M

5

Polish

 

12 Aug. 1944

85386

Donten

Vaclava

F

13

Polish

 

12 Oct. 1944

A-8737

Echstein (Eckstein)

Ilona

F

9

Jewish

Hungary

July 1944

A-8738

Echstein (Eckstein)

Vera

F

9

Jewish

Hungary

July 1944

?

Einesman

Roza

F

12

?

Poland

August 1944

?

Eisenberg

Judit

F

9

?

Czechoslova-kia

September 1944

B-14706

Epstein

H.M.

M

14 ¾

Jewish

Hungary

June 1944

?

Epstein

Jamas

M

15

Block 18

Hungary

 

A-7060

Fekete

Orla

F

7

Jewish

Hungary

June 1944

A-12089

Fekete

Vilmos

M

7

Jewish

Hungary

June 1944

A-26919

Feldbaum

Marianne

F

13

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

A-7525

Ferri

Luigi

M

12

Jewish

Italy

August 1944

A-782

Fischer

Georg

M

9

Jewish

Czechoslova-kia

May 1944

A-781

Fischer

Josef

M

9

Jewish

Czechoslova-kia

May 1944

A-27789

Frei

Rozsi

F

14

Jewish

Hungary

10 Jun. 1944

A-24977

Friedler

Boleslaw

M

13

Jewish

Poland

6 Aug. 1944

B-14058

Fuchs

Arpad

M

10

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

A-15981

Fürst

Erika

F

13

Jewish

Yugoslavia

21 May 1944

?

Geiger

Laura

F

12

Jewish

Poland

August 1944

?

Ginter

Genjek

M

6

?

Poland

?

A-13203

Goldental

Sandor

M

10

Jewish

Hungary

5 Jun. 1944

A-13202

Goldental

Ernö

M

10

Jewish

Hungary

5 Jun. 1944

A-7205

Goldental

Manka

F

3

Jewish

Hungary

5 Jun. 1944

A-27632

Grinspan

Ruth

F

7 ½

Jewish

Poland

27 Jul. 1944

A-27633

Grossmann

Paula

F

6

Jewish

Poland

27 Jul. 1944

A-26945

Grossmann

Olga

F

6 ½

Jewish

Slovakia

4 Nov. 1944

A-26946

Grossmann

V.J.

F

6 ½

Jewish

Slovakia

4 Nov. 1944

A-26942

Grünbaum

Alice

F

11

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

A-12958

Grünfeld

M.

F.

14

Jewish

Romania

May 1944

192812

Gunsky

Richard

M

6

Polish

?

12 Aug. 1944

?

Gutenberg

V.J.

F

9

Jewish

Poland

October 1944

190691

Gutmann

Rene

M

6

Jewish

Czechoslova-kia

May 1944

A-17546

Hadl

Paul

M

7

Jewish

Hungary

11 Jun. 1944

A-17545

Hadl

Gyuri

M

7

Jewish

Hungary

11 Jun. 1944

A-9754

Hadl

Eva

F

13

Jewish

Hungary

11 Jun. 1944

B-14095

Hajman

J.

M

4

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

?

Halpern

Gabriel

M

15

?

Poland

June 1944

B-14101

Hamburger

Julius

M

6

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

A-26959

Hecht

Eva

F

2

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

A-5142

Helenka

?

F

2 ½

Jewish

?

?

A-27638

Hellstein

Fella

F

6

Jewish

Poland

27 Jul. 1944

A-7222

Hermann

Piroska

F

13

Jewish

Hungary

2 Jun. 1944

A-2723

Hermann

Ibolya

F

13

Jewish

Hungary

2 Nov. 1944

A-27681

Herskovic

Marta

F

14

Jewish

Slovakia

15 May 1944

?

Hochstein

Paul

M

5

?

Poland

February 1944

A-19999

Hochstein

S.D.

M

4 ¾

Jewish

Hungary

July 1944

A-26974

Hojman

Enka

F

8 months

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

A-6373

Holländer

Anna

F

13

Jewish

Hungary

May 1944

193985

Hutnik

S.S.

M

13

Polish

?

12 Oct. 1944

188930

Jakobson

Heinz

M

8

Jewish

Holland

June 1944

?

Jaksa-Bykonski

Hania

F

10

Polish

?

12 Aug. 1944

B-14381

Jung

?

M

4

Jewish

Slovakia

November 1944

?

Kaff

Vera

F

15

Block 25

Czechoslova-kia

May 1944

?

Kaff

Mira

F

15

Block 25

Czechoslova-kia

May 1944

188926

Kanel

Johann

M

6

Jewish

Holland

6 Jun. 1944

A-27643

Kaplon

Irene

F

14

Jewish

Hungary

2 Jun. 1944

192813

Kapusta

H.J.

M

5

Polish

?

12 Aug. 1944

192893

Karpa

H.J.

M

9

Polish

?

12 Oct. 1944

B-14105

Keller

Ernst

M

8

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

A-7213

Klein

Anna

F

11

Jewish

Hungary

Mid-June 1944

A-7214

Klein

Judit

F

11

Jewish

Hungary

Mid-June 1944

A-6471

Klein

Agnes

F

14

Jewish

Hungary

May 1944

?

Klein

Gyorgy

M

15

Bl. 18

Hungary

 

A-2459

Kleinmann

Josef

M

4 ¾

Jewish

Czechoslova-kia

May 1944

A-19997

Klüger

Paul

M

9 ½

Jewish

Poland

23 Jul. 1944

B-14132

Kohn

M.L.

M

6

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

A-5139

Kohn

Klara

F

5

Jewish

Hungary

12 May 1944

A-5138

Kohn

E.K.

F

4

Jewish

Hungary

12 May 1944

B-14156

Krasnianski

Iwan

M

10

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

A-26195

Kufler

Yena

F

10

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

85759

Kurska

Kalina

F

6

Polish

Poland

13 Aug. 1944

B-7636

Lederer

Franz

M

14

Jewish

Czechoslova-kia

14 Aug. 1944

B-14182

Lewinger

Peter

M

5

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

?

Lieberman

Tibor

M

15

Block 18

Hungary

?

?

Liechtenstern

Kurt

M

15

Block 20

Czechoslova-kia

June 1943

?

Löbl

Robert

M

15

Block 28

Hungary

January 1944

A-12090

Lörinczi

A.A.

M

10

Jewish

Hungary

2 Jun. 1944

A-7059

Lörinczi

L.A.

F

10

Jewish

Hungary

2 Jun. 1944

A-5123

Lustig-Brawer

Judit

F

2

Jewish

Hungary

22 May 1944

A-5121

Lustig-Brawer

A.A.

F

2

Jewish

Hungary

22 May 1944

A.5131

Malek

Judit

F

14

Jewish

Hungary

May 1944

A-7738

Malek

Jakob

M

3

Jewish

Hungary

May 1944

A-7737

Malek

Elias

M

3

Jewish

Hungary

May 1944

?

Malek

Judit

F

15

Jewish

Hungary

May 1944

?

Malek

Salomon

M

15

Jewish

Hungary

May 1944

A-27165

Mangel

Gertrud.

F

12

Jewish

Hungary

3 Nov. 1944

A-3638

Marmorstein

Valeria

F

11

Jewish

Hungary

20 May 1944

A-3637

Marmorstein

Marta

F

11

Jewish

Hungary

20 May 1944

?

Maslow

A.Ja.

M

 

Russian

 

?

A-9841

Mejer

Laure

F

13

Jewish

Hungary

17 May 1944

A-1386

Mejer

Mozes

M

13

Jewish

Hungary

17 May 1944

183959

Michuk

Tolla

M

 

Russian

 

?

?

Modiano

Samo

M

15

Block 18

Italy

August 1944

77357

Morosaw

Taissa

F

2 ½

Russian

 

April 1944

A-7064

Moses

Miriam

F

11

Jewish

Hungary

2 Jun. 1944

A-7063

Moses

Eva

F

11

Jewish

Hungary

2 Jun. 1944

?

Mucha

Jeslav

M

9

Polish

 

August 1944

A-27063

Neumann

Henia

F

13

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

B-14206

Neumann

Gabriel J.

M

8

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

B-14213

Neumann

G.L.

M

9

Jewish

Hungary

2 Nov. 1944

188931

Noach

Haskel

M

10

Jewish

Holland

6 Jun. 1944

78482

Noach

R.A.

F

13

Jewish

Holland

6 Jun. 1944

?

Orovicz

Rischek

M

5

?

Poland

?

77370

Pasankova (Michuk)

Sina

F

3

Russian

?

?

A-1437

Peterfreund

J.S.

M

12

Jewish

Hungary

June 1944

A-3630

Peterfreund

A.S.

F

12

Jewish

Hungary

June 1944

?

Pflanzen

Linka

F

5

?

Poland

February 44

183970

Plawinski

Alik

M

4

?

Witebsk

15 Apr. 1943

B-1153

Pritichy

Alex

M

7

Jewish

Lodz/Poland

August 1944

A-5602

Rajngevic69

C.M.

F

14

Jewish

France

28 May 1944

A-3039

Reichmann70

Friedel

F

9

Jewish

Belgium

21 May 1944

A-10440

Reinitz

Georg

M

12

Jewish

Hungary

28 May 1944

B-14245

Rochlitz

Alfred

M

10

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

84831

Ronbacha

Danuta

F

13

Polish

?

13 Aug. 1944

A-7054

Rosenbaum

Ruth

F

10

Jewish

Hungary

2 Jun. 1944

A-7055

Rosenbaum

Judit

F

10

Jewish

Hungary

2 Jun. 1944

?

Rosenberg

Ruth

F

11

Jewish

Hungary

June 1944

?

Rosenblum

Hana

F

12

 

Poland

August 1944

B-2784

Rosenwasser

Lea

F

12

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

B-14232

Rosenwasser

Josef

M

8

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

B-14820

Rosenzweig

Jurek

M

12

Jewish

Lodz/Poland

August 1944

A-27087

Rukovic

Erika

F

3

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

A-10

Salomon

Sarolta

F

9

Jewish

Hungary

21 May 1944

A-11

Salomon

Rozalia

F

9

Jewish

Hungary

21 May 1944

A-5128

Sattler

Vera

F

12

Jewish

Hungary

17 May 1944

A-5129

Sattler

Magda

F

12

Jewish

Hungary

May 1944

A-9272

Sauer

Margit

F

14

Jewish

Hungary

Mid- June 1944

A-9271

Sauer

Sara

F

14

Jewish

Hungary

Mid-

June 1944

179963

Sawojlo

A.I.

M

10 months

Russian

 

born in the camp

A-27153

Schick

Eva

F

13

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

81753

Schlager

Laura

F

9

Jewish

Holland

June 1944

188932

Schlager

J.D.

M

11

Jewish

Holland

June 1944

B-14324

Schlesinger

Pavel

M

6

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

B-14325

Schlesinger

Robert

M

11

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

A-7254

Schlesinger

Martha

F

12

Jewish

Hungary

15 Jun. 1944

A-7255

Schlesinger

Judith

F

12

Jewish

Hungary

15 Jun. 1944

?

Schlesinger

Sidonia

F

14

 

Hungary

 

?

Schuldenfrei

Moritz (Mendel)

M

11

Block 18

Belgium

April 1944

A-18951

Schwarcz

Vera

F

13 ½

Jewish

Slovakia

16 Jun. 1944

 

Schwartz

Tamas

M

12

?

Czechoslova-kia

August 1944

B-14295

Schwarz

Ferenc

M

11

Jewish

Slovakia

4 Nov. 1944

?

Schwarz

Iren

F

12

?

Hungary

May 1944

?

Schweid

Andor

M

15

Block 9

Hungary

?

?

Selmanovic

Mor

M

14

?

Hungary

May 1944

77303

Sluschakova

Wala

F

3-4

?

Witebsk

April 1944

A-27880

Spiro

Dora

F

9

Jewish

Poland

27 Jul. 1944

A-23221

Spirova

Frida

F

9

Jewish

Slovakia

12 Nov. 1944

A-27712

Stein

Judith

F

14

Jewish

Hungary

May 1944

B-14566

Steiner

Jindrich

M

14

Jewish

Slovakia

30 Sep. 1944

?

Steiner

Zdenek

M

15

?

Czechoslova-kia

September 1943

?

Steiner

Jiri

M

15

?

Czechoslova-kia

September 1943

81769

Stockfisch

Hariette

F

3

Jewish

Holland

June 1944

A-27126

Strauss

Gitta

F

10

Jewish

Slovakia

4 Nov. 1944

A-27127

Strauss

Lilly

F

12

Jewish

Slovakia

4 Nov. 1944

B-14272

Strauss

D.J.

M

8

Jewish

Slovakia

4 Nov. 1944

?

Stroch

Jakob

 

15

Block 28

Holland

?

A-6900

Teller

Katalina

F

14 ¾

Jewish

Hungary

20 May 1944

A-23493

Traub

Hanka

F

5

Jewish

Czechoslova-kia

June 1944

A-23492

Traub

E.

F

5

Jewish

Czechoslova-kia

June 1944

188933

Van Gelder

Eddi

M

3

Jewish

Holland

June 1944

188934

Viskoper

Robert

M

6

Jewish

Holland

June 1944

?

Weinberger

Irene

F

14

?

Czechoslova-kia

November 1944

?

Weinheber

Berta

F

15

?

Czechoslova-kia

November 1944

A-27202

Weiss

M.E.

F

10

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

A-27197

Weiss

Migrun

F

6

Jewish

Slovakia

2 Nov. 1944

B-14354

Weiss

Jurai

M

7 months

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

?

Weiss

Lilly

F

14

?

Hungary

?

A-27199

Weisshefer

B.E.

F

14 ¾

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

A-27201

Weisz

Eva E.

F

13

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

A-27660

Weisz

Elisabeth

F

11

Jewish

Hungary

July 1944

?

Weisz

Marta

F

11

?

Czechoslova-kia

November 1944

?

Weiszmann

Ibolya

F

13

?

Hungary

June 1944

A-27208

Winter

Erika

F

13

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

B-14348

Winter

Otto

M

10

Jewish

Slovakia

3 Nov. 1944

?

Winzorek

Bogasta

 

15

Block 10

Poland

?

?

Wolkowitz

Rifka

F

5

?

Poland

August 1944

?

Wolkowitz

Fischel

M

8

?

Poland

August 1944

B-14880

Worstmann (Workman)

Gabor

M

14

Jewish

Hungary

7 Jul. 1944

?

Wurms

Juda

M

15

Block 19

Holland

?

B-14828

Zelewski

Samuel

M

11

Jewish

Lodz/Poland

August 1944

B-14827

Zelewski

Leib

M

11

Jewish

Lodz/Poland

August 1944

?

Zelmanovits

Mor

M

14

Block 18

Hungary

?

A-27218

Ziemlichova

Alice

F

13

Polish

?

2 Nov. 1944

?

Zucker

Maria

F

13

?

Poland

August 1944

A-27772

Zwischberg

Vera

F

12

Jewish

Hungary

July 1944

Table 2 – List of Twins at Auschwitz

Registration number

Family name

Given name

Date of birth/age

Date of  liberation

(L = Liberated

A-348

Abeles

Elisabeth

19 Jul. 1932

?

A-77

Abeles

Peter

19 Jul. 1932

?

78254

Abrahamson

Helli

10 years

27 Jan. 1945

A-7739

Adler

Mano

15 Feb. 1932

27 Jan. 1945

Z-5618

Adler

Konrad

8 Jan. 1936

?

Z-5619

Adler

Andreas

8 Jan. 1936

?

A-6029

Adler

Fanny

15 Feb. 1932

died at Auschwitz

A-26885

Ajzenberg

J.I.

8 years

27 Jan. 1945

A-5772

Alter (Aeter)

Sari

?

?

B-5405

Appelbaum

Edek (Adolf)

6 years

27 Jan. 1945

B-5406

Appelbaum

Milek (Hilek)

6 years

27 Jan. 1945

A-1433

Bach (Back)

Isidor

25 Jun. 1927

27 Jan. 1945

A-1434

Bach (Back)

Uscher

25 Jun. 1927

27 Jan. 1945

168208

Basch

Paul

?

?

168209

Basch

Albert

?

?

B-14731

Basch

Samio

11 Jul. 1929

27 Jan. 1945

B-14732

Basch

Morton

11 Jul. 1929

27 Jan. 1945

?

Bauer 

Sary

15

?

?

Baum

Miriam  Shteinhoff

?

L

?

Baum

Yizchak

?

L

A-5105

Baum

Ernst (Erno)

18 Jan. 1929

?

A-5342

Baum

Magda

18 Jan. 1929

?

A-7212

Baum

Judith

31 May 1930

27 Jan. 1945

A-26857

Beer

Pawlonna

8

27 Jan. 1945

Z-2380

Behrends (Berentz)

Johann

19 Apr. 1921

?

Z-2381

Behrends (Berentz)

Frinke

19 Apr. 1921

?

?

Bein

Piroska

15

?

A-25981

Benger

Eva

13

27 Jan. 1945

B-2780

Bierman

Ephraim

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-20851

Binet

Martha

3

27 Jan. 1945

B-14005

Binet

Gaszpar

6

27 Jan. 1945

B-14006

Binet

Uszn (Robert)

6

27 Jan. 1945

?

Blau

Eva

?

L

?

Blau (Eitan)

Rachel

?

L

A-12080

Bleier

Ernö

6 Feb. 1936

27 Jan. 1945

A-5103

Bleier

Tibor

9 Jan. 1931

L

A-5104

Bleier

Miklos

9 Jan. 1931

…71

A-7199

Bleier

Edith

9

27 Jan. 1945

B-14615

Bleier

Istvan

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-26847

Blum

Vera

11

27 Jan. 1945

B-13979

Blum

Palko

6

27 Jan. 1945

?

Blyer

Yizchak Efrat

?

L

B-14003

Braun

Peter

10 months

27 Jan. 1945

A-14096

Braun

Kalman

31 May 1930

27 Jan. 1945

A-17456

Brichta

Andreas

5 Jan. 1935

27 Jan. 1945

A-17457

Brichta

Karl

5 Jan. 1935

27 Jan. 1945

A-17452

Brodt

Antol

12 Mar. 1930

27 Jan. 1945

A-17453

Brodt

Józef

12 Mar. 1930

27 Jan. 1945

A-14090

Brown

Yehudith Karen

31 May 1930

27 Jan. 1945

?

Bryer

(twin brother)

?

L

?

Bryer

Yehudith Mayer

?

L

76483

Bucci72

Alessandra

7 years

27 Jan. 1945

76484

Bucci73

Liliana

7 years

27 Jan. 1945

B-13986

Burger

Franz

6 years

27 Jan. 1945

B-13987

Burger

Thomas

11 years

27 Jan. 1945

A-7264

Chybik

Ilse

14 years

27 Jan. 1945

?

Cinsk

Jurek

6 years

?

A-7057

Czengeri

Lea

6 Jun. 1937

27 Jan. 1945

A-7058

Czengeri

Yehudith

6 Jun. 1937

27 Jan. 1945

?

Czuker

Irena Shtronwasser

?

L

?

Czuker

Lea Berkman

?

L

A-5132

David

Margit

58 years

27 Jan. 1945

?

Deitch

Hana Faiger

?

L

?

Deitch

Rache Markowitz

?

L

A-5135

Demst (Dunst)

Therese

19

27 Jan. 1945

A-5136

Demst (Dunst)

Lilly

19

27 Jan. 1945

A-9745

German

Katalin

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-9746

German

Martha

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-3628

Deutzel (German)

Ethel

22

?

A-3629

Deutzel (German)

Malvine

22

?

Z-4636

Dewüs

Margot

25 Feb. 1927

?

Z-4637

Dewüs

Elfriede

25 Feb. 1927

?

A-26877

Diamant

Eva

12

27 Jan. 1945

A-8737

Eckstein

Rona (Ilona)

8

27 Jan. 1945

A-8738

Eckstein

Vera

8

27 Jan. 1945

Z-2924

Einacker

Christian

22 Nov. 1931

?

Z-2925

Einacker

Paul

22 Nov. 1931

?

?

Einesman

Roza

12

?

?

Eisenberg

Judit

9

?

A-7218

Eisenberger

Elisabeth

28

?

?

Epstein

Jamas

15

?

B-14706

Epstein

H.M.

14 ¾

27 Jan. 1945

A-7256

Erenthal

Elizabeth

34

?

A-7257

Erenthal

Marie

34

?

113336

Ernst

Hermann

12 Mar. 1910

?

Z-5645

Ernst

Karl

12 Mar. 1910

?

A-2042

Feingold

Jakob

5 Nov. 1927

?

A-4891

Feingold

Rosa

5 Nov. 1927

?

?

Feit

Esther

?

L

?

Feit

Ita

?

L

A-12089

Fekete

Vilmos

7

27 Jan. 1945

A-7060

Fekete

Izabella

7

27 Jan. 1945

A-7740

Feld

Ludwik

19 Mar. 1904

27 Jan. 1945

A-26919

Feldbaum

Marianne

13

27 Jan. 1945

A-781

Fischer

Josef

7 Jan. 1936

27 Jan. 1945

A-782

Fischer

Georg

7 Jan. 1936

27 Jan. 1945

A-5717

Fogel

Isidor

13 May 1929

?

A-5718

Fogel

Mano

13 May 1929

?

A-15675

Frankfurt

Georg

13 Oct. 1930

27 Jan. 1945

A-15676

Frankfurt

Laslo

13 Oct. 1930

27 Jan. 1945

A-3102

Frankovitz

Morris

?

27 Jan. 1945

A-3103

Frankovitz

Jacob

?

27 Jan. 1945

A-27789

Frei

Rozsi

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-7216

Freiberger

Jolan

43

?

A-7217

Freiberger

Margit

43

?

?

Fried

Charlotte

21

?

A-5126

Fried

Jolan

21

?

A-13

Friedman

Esther

15

?

A-14

Friedman

Helena

15

?

A-12081

Friedmann

Jakob

12 Oct. 1925

27 Jan. 1945

A-12082

Friedmann

Mozes

12 Oct. 1925

27 Jan. 1945

A-7202

Friedmann

Olga

12

27 Jan. 1945

A-7203

Friedmann

Ewa

12

27 Jan. 1945

B-14058

Fuchs

Arpad

10

27 Jan. 1945

?

Fuggel

Ezra

?

L

?

Fuggel

Menasche

?

L

A-15981

Fürst

Erika

13

27 Jan. 1945

?

Fux

Miriam

?

L

?

Fux

Yona Lux

?

L

?

Geiger

Laura

12

?

?

Ginter

Genjek

6

?

?

Goldberger

Laura

27 Feb. 1929

?

A-2513

Goldberger

Josef

27 Feb. 1929

27 Jan. 1945

A-5119

Goldberger

Margit

27 Feb. 1929

?

A-13203

Goldentahl

Ernest

16 Feb. 1935

27 Jan. 1945

A-13202

Goldental

Ernö

10

27 Jan. 1945

A-13203

Goldental

Sandor

10

27 Jan. 1945

A-7205

Goldental

Manka

3

27 Jan. 1945

?

Goldenthal

Amy

?

L

A-13202

Goldenthal

Aleksander

16 Feb. 1935

27 Jan. 1945

A-7733

Gottesmann

Elias

4

L

A-7734

Gottesmann

Jenö

4

L

A-7735

Gottesmann

Joseph

?

?

A-27632

Grinspan

Ruth

7 ½

27 Jan. 1945

A-21945

Grossman

Olga Solomon

6

27 Jan. 1945

A-21946

Grossman

Vera Krieghel

6

27 Jan. 1945

A-26945

Grossmann

Olga

6

27 Jan. 1945

A-26946

Grossmann

Vera

6

27 Jan. 1945

A-27633

Grossmann

Paula

6

27 Jan. 1945

A-9269

Grossmann

Katalin

47

?

A-9270

Grossmann

Susanne

47

?

A-2518

Grosz

Lajosz

22 Nov. 1903

?

A-2519

Grosz

Tibor

22 Nov. 1903

?

A-26942

Grünbaum

Alice

11

27 Jan. 1945

A-7200

Grünbaum

Berta

19

27 Jan. 1945

A-7201

Grünbaum

Jolan

19

27 Jan. 1945

A-5719

Grünberger

Oscar

9 Jun. 1925

?

A-6030

Grünberger

Sara

9 Jun. 1925

?

A-12958

Grünfeld

M.

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-6036

Grünhut

Janka

49

?

?

Gutenberg

V.J.

9

27 Jan. 1945

?

Gutman

Menahem (Menesel)

?

L

?

Gutman

(sister)

?

L

?

Gutman

Yoel

?

L

?

Gutman

(triplet sister)

?

L

169061

Guttman

Rene

21 Dec. 1937

27 Jan. 1945

70917

Guttman

Irene

21 Dec. 1937

27 Jan. 1945

A-17545

Hadl

Gyuri

7

27 Jan. 1945

A-17546

Hadl

Paul

7

27 Jan. 1945

A-9754

Hadl

Eva

13

27 Jan. 1945

A-17545

Hadl (Hadel)

Georg Heimler

6

27 Jan. 1945

A-17546

Hadl (Hadel)

Paul Heimler

6

27 Jan. 1945

B-14095

Hajman

J.

4

27 Jan. 1945

Z-5277

Halonek

Drachomie

14 May 1936

?

Z-5278

Halonek

Anna

14 May 1936

?

?

Halpern

Gabriel

15

?

B-14101

Hamburger

Julius

6

27 Jan. 1945

Z-4975

Hanstein

Paul

27 Jun. 1898

?

B-10502

Hauptmann

Zoltan

23 Oct. 1930

27 Jan. 1945

B-10503

Hauptmann

Jenö

23 Oct. 1930

27 Jan. 1945

A-9747

Havas

Agnes

21 Aug. 1927

74

A-9748

Havas

Judith

21 Aug. 1927

75

A-26959

Hecht

Eva

2

27 Jan. 1945

?

Helbrun

Annetta

4 Feb. 1924

L

?

Helbrun

Stephanie

4 Feb. 1924

L

A-5142

Helenka

?

2 ½

27 Jan. 1945

148578

Heller

Paul

1 Jul. 1927

?

148580

Heller

Peter

1 Jul. 1927

27 Jan. 1945

A-27638

Hellstein

Fella

6

27 Jan. 1945

A-1435

Herbach

Andreas

3 Mar. 1925

?

A-1436

Herbach

Ladislaus

3 Mar. 1925

76

?

Hermann

(fratello)

?

L

?

Hermann

Czvi Weisel

?

L

A-7222

Hermann

Piroska

12

27 Jan. 1945

A-7223

Hermann

Ibolya

12

27 Jan. 1945

A-27681

Herskovic

Marta

14

27 Jan. 1945

?

Herskovitz

Ruth

?

L

A-5079

Herskowicz

Gizela (Pearle)

23

27 Jan. 1945

A-5080

Herskowicz

Helena

23

27 Jan. 1945

?

Hochstein

Paul

5

?

A-19999

Hochstein

S.D.

4 ¾

27 Jan. 1945

A-5197

Hofert

Alfred

22 May 1933

L

A-7061

Hoffman

Olga

20

27 Jan. 1945

A-7062

Hoffman

Ida

20

27 Jan. 194577

A-26974

Hojman

Enka

8 months

27 Jan. 1945

A-5106

Holfert (Holpert)

Eugen (Jenö)

22 May 1933

?

A-5107

Holfert (Szechter)

Alfred

22 May 1933

27 Jan. 1945

A-5117

Holländer

Rosa

22

?

A-5118

Holländer

Laura

22

?

A-6373

Holländer

Anna

13

27 Jan. 1945

?

Hornung

Henry

?

L

?

Hornung

Victor

?

L

188930

Jakobson

Heinz

8

27 Jan. 1945

B-14381

Jung

?

4

27 Jan. 1945

170377

Kafka

Otto

5 Jan. 1901

?

A-7047

Kafr (Kaff)

Mira

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-7048

Kafr (Kaff)

Vera

14

27 Jan. 1945

188926

Kanel

Johann

6

27 Jan. 1945

A-27643

Kaplon

Irene

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-7220

Kastner

Iboria

28

?

A-7221

Kastner (Singer)

 Klara

28

?

A-5720

Katz

Abraham

1932

27 Jan. 1945

A-5721

Katz

Chaim

1932

?

B-14105

Keller

Ernst

8

27 Jan. 1945

A-9749

Kemenski

Klara

24

L

A-9750

Kemenski

Magda

24

L

A-7049

Keppes (Köpes)

Ewa

19

L

A-7050

Keppes (Köpes)

Teresa

19

L

A-8735

Kerpel

Marta

17

L

A-8736

Kerpel

Ida

17

L

170450

Kestr

Friedrich

26 Oct. 1921

?

170451

Kestr

Hans

26 Oct. 1921

?

A-8739

Kirz (Kurz)

Lilly

22 Feb. 1900

27 Jan. 194578

A-8740

Kirz (Kurz)

Edith

22 Feb. 1900

L

A-14319

Kiss

Andre

5 Oct. 1928

?

A-14320

Kiss

Laszlo

5 Oct. 1928

?

?

Klein

Gyorgy

15

?

?

Klein

Bela

?

L

?

Klein

(twin brother)

?

L

A-2511

Klein

Laslo

31 Jan. 1931

?

A-2512

Klein

Gyula

31 Jan. 1931

?

A-5331

Klein

Ferenz

7 Jun. 1932

27 Jan. 1945

A-5332

Klein

Otto

7 Jun. 1932

27 Jan. 1945

A-6471

Klein

Agnes

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-7213

Klein

Anna

9

27 Jan. 1945

A-7214

Klein

Judith

9

27 Jan. 1945

A-4931

Kleinman

Martha

14 Apr. 1940

27 Jan. 1945

A-2459

Kleinmann

Josef

14 Apr. 1940

27 Jan. 1945

A-19997

Klüger

Paul

9 ½

27 Jan. 1945

A-5138

Kohn

Ewa

15 Mar. 1940

27 Jan. 1945

A-5139

Kohn

Klara

15 Mar. 1940

27 Jan. 1945

B-14132

Kohn

M.L.

6

27 Jan. 1945

80912

Kohnstein

Emilie

12 Sep. 1927

27 Jan. 1945

80913

Kohnstein

Gizela

12 Sep. 1927

27 Jan. 1945

B-14156

Krasnianski

Iwan

10

27 Jan. 1945

73492

Kraub (Traub)

Ewa

5 Jun. 1939

27 Jan. 1945

73493

Kraub (Traub)

Hanka

5 Jun. 1939

27 Jan. 1945

Z-1773

Kraus

Elisabeth

17 Sep. 1923

?

Z-1774

Kraus

Anna

17 Sep. 1923

?

Z-2660

Kreutz (Krentz)

Elise

19 Oct. 1876

?

Z-2661

Kreutz (Krentz)

Johanna

19 Oct. 1876

?

A-26195

Kufler

Yena

10

27 Jan. 1945

A-14321

Kühn

Gyorgy

23 Jan. 1932

27 Jan. 1945

A-14322

Kühn

Istwan

17 Dec. 1932

27 Jan. 1945

85759

Kurska

Kalina

6

27 Jan. 1945

A-7051

Labowicz

Lili

15

27 Jan. 1945

A-7052

Labowicz

Ewa

15

27 Jan. 1945

A-5544

Lachkar

Lucy

21

?

A-27700

Laks

Jona

28 Apr. 1928

79

A-14325

Laufer

Josef

12 Aug. 1930

27 Jan. 1945

A-14326

Laufer

Istwan (Stefan)

12 Aug. 1930

27 Jan. 1945

A-5722

Lazarovitz

Yizchak

?

27 Jan. 1945

A-6033

Lazarovitz

Gizela

1 Jul. 1929

27 Jan. 1945

A-5722

Lazarowicz

Isidor

1 Jul. 1929

?

170574

Lebenhart

Eugen

21 Feb. 1924

?

B-7636

Lederer

Franz

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-342

Leipen

Ervin

23 May 1937

?

A-343

Leipen

Paul

23 May 1937

?

?

Levinger

Rachel Zehira

?

L

?

Levinstein

Herman

?

L

?

Levinstein

Lili Birkenfeld

?

L

B-14182

Lewinger

Peter

5

27 Jan. 1945

A-3632

Lichtenstein

Lilly

21

L

A-3633

Lichtenstein

Malvine

21

L

?

Lieberman

Tibor

15

?

?

Lieberman

Gota

?

L

?

Lieberman

(sister)

?

L

?

Liechtenstern

Kurt

15

?

A-12083

Lipschitz

Erno

16 Jul. 1927

?

A-12084

Lipschitz

Zoltan

16 Jul. 1927

?

?

Lipshitz

Elimelek

?

L

?

Lipshitz

Zeipora Milstein

?

L

?

Löbl

Robert

15

?

A-12090

Lörenzi

Andreas

10

27 Jan. 1945

A-7059

Lörenzi

Lea

10

27 Jan. 1945

A-5141

Lövinger

Rosa

2

L

A-5142

Lövinger

Helena

2

L

?

Lövy

Miriam

4 Jun. 1928

27 Jan. 1945

A-1295

Lövy

Leopold

4 Jun. 1928

27 Jan. 1945

A-14097

Lövy (Levy)

Andor

?

?

A-14093

Löwenstein

Herman

25 Jun. 1930

?

?

Lowy (Lovy)

Miriam

6 Apr. 1928

27 Jan. 1945

A-14323

Lustig

Gyorgy (Georg)

13 Dec. 1926

27 Jan. 1945

A-14324

Lustig

Martin

13 Dec. 1926

27 Jan. 1945

A-5121

Lustig-Brauer (Braver)

Ewa

22 Dec. 1942

80

A-5122

Lustig-Brauer (Braver)

Agnes

22 Dec. 1942

27 Jan. 1945

A-5123

Lustig-Brauer (Braver)

Judith

22 Dec. 1942

27 Jan. 1945

A-5131

Malek

Yehudith Feig

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-7736

Malek

Salomon

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-7737

Malek

Elias

3

27 Jan. 1945

A-7738

Malek

Jacob

3

27 Jan. 1945

A-27165

Mangel

G.L.

12

27 Jan. 1945

A-1386

Mayer (Meier)

Moses

1931

27 Jan. 1945

A-3841

Mayer (Meier)

Laura

1931

27 Jan. 1945

A-3637

Mermelstein

Marta

11

27 Jan. 1945

A-3638

Mermelstein

Waleria

11

27 Jan. 1945

A-3622

Michobowicz

Irena

21

L

A-3623

Michobowicz

Lenta

21

L

?

Mintz

Rivka Vered

?

L

?

Mintz

(sister)

?

L

?

Modiano

Samo

15

?

A-5770

Molnar

Suza

20

L

A-5771

Molnar

Marie

20

L

A-7063

Moses

Eva

11

27 Jan. 1945

A-7064

Moses

Miriam

11

27 Jan. 1945

?

Moskowitz

Elisabeth

?

L

A-6034

Moszkowitz

Rosa

18

L

A-6035

Moszkowitz

Helena

18

81

A-7063

Mozes

Eva

31 Jan. 1935

27 Jan. 1945

A-7064

Mozes

Miriam

31 Jan. 1935

27 Jan. 1945

A-27063

Neumann

Henia

13

27 Jan. 1945

B-14206

Neumann

Gabriel J.

8

27 Jan. 1945

B-14213

Neumann

G.L.

9

27 Jan. 1945

A-7259

Neuschlöss

Judith

17 Dec. 1927

?

A-14327

Neuschlüss

Gabor

17 Dec. 1927

?

188931

Noach

Haskel

10

27 Jan. 1945

78482

Noach

R.A.

13

27 Jan. 1945

A-1719

Nochmann

Albert

22 Apr. 1885

?

A-1720

Nochmann

Fritz

22 Apr. 1885

?

A-1766

Oppenheimer

Jaroslaus

26 Mar. 1920

?

A-1767

Oppenheimer

Sidonius

26 Mar. 1920

?

A-1442

Ories (Ovicz)

Abraham

26 Sep. 1903

27 Jan. 1945

A-1443

Ories (Ovicz)

Markus

16 Jul. 1909

27 Jan. 1945

A-1444

Ories (Ovicz)

Sandor

1

27 Jan. 1945

?

Orovicz

Rischek

5

?

A-5089

Ovicz (Edenburg)

Erika (Frieda)

?

27 Jan. 1945

A-5087

Ovicz (Owicz)

Piroska

?

27 Jan. 1945

A-5088

Ovicz (Owicz)

Rozsi (Rozhinka)

?

27 Jan. 1945

A-5090

Ovicz (Owicz)

Franciska

?

27 Jan. 1945

A-5092

Ovicz (Owicz)

Seren (Sara)

?

27 Jan. 1945

A-5093

Ovicz (Owicz)

Lina (Leah)

?

27 Jan. 1945

A-5091

Ovicz-Miskovitz

Elisabeth

?

27 Jan. 1945

A-7206

Paneth (Pacuta)

Ewa

15

L

A-7207

Paneth (Pacuta)

Sara

15

L

A-1437

Peterfreund

J.S.

12

27 Jan. 1945

A-3630

Peterfreund

Agnes

12 Nov. 1932

27 Jan. 1945

A-1437

Peterfreund

Istwan

12 Nov. 1932

27 Jan. 1945

?

Pflanzen

Linka

5

?

Z-5751

Pohl

Alfred

6 Nov. 1931

?

Z-5752

Pohl

Fritz

6 Nov. 1931

?

A-2514

Pollack

Abraham

21 Nov. 1924

82

A-2515

Pollack

Jacob

21 Nov. 1924

83

A-5417

Pollak

Rozsi

11 Mar. 1927

84

B-1153

Pritichy

Alex

7

27 Jan. 1945

A-5602

Rajngevic

C.M.

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-7219

Reich

Olga

28

?

A-10508

Reichenberg

Efraim (Ernst)

11 Feb. 1928

27 Jan. 1945

B-10507

Reichenberg

Laslo

11 Feb. 1928

L

A-3039

Reichmann

Friedel

9

27 Jan. 1945

A-10440

Reinitz

Georg

12

27 Jan. 1945

B-14245

Rochlitz

Alfred

10

27 Jan. 1945

?

Rosen

Eva

?

L

?

Rosen

Helen

?

L

A-7054

Rosenbaum

Ruth

25 Mar. 1934

27 Jan. 194585

A-7055

Rosenbaum

Judith

25 Mar. 1934

27 Jan. 1945

?

Rosenblum

Hana

12

?

B-14232

Rosenwasser

Josef

8

27 Jan. 1945

B-2784

Rosenwasser

Lea

12

27 Jan. 1945

B-14820

Rosenzweig

Jurek

12

27 Jan. 1945

A-5415

Roth

Piroska

3 Nov. 1927

86

A-5416

Roth

Hermine

3 Nov. 1927

87

A-27087

Rukovic

Erika

3

27 Jan. 1945

?

Sainer

Ilan

?

L

?

Sainer (Novomkova)

Hana

?

L

A-10

Salamon

Charlotte Malte

9

27 Jan. 1945

A-11

Salamon

Rosa

9

27 Jan. 1945

A-5723

Salomon

Lipot

12 Apr. 1924

…

A-5724

Salomon

Dezö

12 Apr. 1924

…

A-5725

Salomon

Sandor

11 May 1931

27 Jan. 1945

A-5726

Salomon

Tibor

11 May 1931

27 Jan. 1945

147689

Salus

Georg

10 Mar. 1924

?

147690

Salus

Ladislaus

10 Mar. 1924

?

A-14094

Sander

Josef

6 Oct. 1931

L

A-7208

Sander

Rozsi

6 Oct. 1931

L

?

Sattler

Gardony (Magda)

12

27 Jan. 1945

A-5128

Sattler

Vera

12 

27 Jan. 1945

A-5129

Sattler

Magda

12

27 Jan. 1945

A-9271

Sauer

Sara

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-9272

Sauer

Margit

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-12087

Schick

Jose

1

88

A-12088

Schick

Otto

1

?

A-27153

Schick

Eva

13

27 Jan. 1945

A-7044

Schick

Hedi

1

89

188932

Schlager

J.D.

11

27 Jan. 1945

81753

Schlager

Laura

9

27 Jan. 1945

?

Schlesinger

Harry

3 Sep. 1929

27 Jan. 1945

?

Schlesinger

(twin sister)

?

died at Au.

60721

Schlesinger

Paula

?

L

A-3624

Schlesinger

Klara

19

L

A-3625

Schlesinger

Lio

19

L

A-5773

Schlesinger

Sidonia

9 Mar. 1929

27 Jan. 1945

A-7254

Schlesinger

Martha

12

27 Jan. 1945

A-7255

Schlesinger

Judith

12

27 Jan. 1945 + 16 Mar.4590

A-7732

Schlesinger

Herman

9 Mar. 1929

?

B-14324

Schlesinger

Pavel

6

27 Jan. 1945

B-14325

Schlesinger

Robert

11

27 Jan. 1945

170799

Schön

Richard

22 May 1906

?

170800

Schön

Robert

22 May 1906

?

A-7041

Schröter

Judith

12

L

A-7042

Schröter

Veronika

12

L

?

Schuldenfrei

Moritz (Mendel)

11

?

A-18951

Schwarcz

Vera

13 ½

27 Jan. 1945

?

Schwartz

Tamas

12

?

?

Schwartz

Yakov

?

27 Jan. 1945

?

Schwartz

Yehuda

?

L

?

Schwartz

Eva

?

91

A-7710

Schwartz

Elisabeth

?

L

?

Schwarz

Iren

12

?

A-14095

Schwarz

Kalman

8 Apr. 1932

27 Jan. 1945

A-5109

Schwarz

Eugen (Jenö)

13 Apr. 1915

?

A-5343

Schwarz

Elisabeth

8 Apr. 1932

?

A-5727

Schwarz

Aladar

10 Jan. 1921

?

A-5728

Schwarz

Ignatz

10 Jan. 1921

?

A-6037

Schwarz

Elisabeth

49

?

A-7730

Schwarz

Josef

13 Apr. 1925

?

A-7731

Schwarz

Adolf

13 Apr. 1925

?

B-14295

Schwarz

Ferenc

11

27 Jan. 1945

?

Schweid

Andor

15

?

A-792

Seiler

Sarah

5 Oct. 1940

27 Jan. 1945

A-793

Seiler

Hannah

5 Oct. 1940

92

169094

Seiner

Milan

16 Nov. 1933

?

71787

Seiner

Milada

?

L

71789

Seiner

Hanna

?

L

A-1199

Seligsohn

Arthur

22 Jan. 1889

?

?

Selmanovic

Mor

14

?

A-5133

Senderowicz

Gizella

18

L

A-5134

Senderowicz

Rosa

18

L

A-6024

Silberger

Judith

20

L

A-6025

Silberger

Andrea

20

L

A-7221

Singer (Sinje)

Klara

28 years

?

A-1439

Slomowicz

Markus

18 Apr. 1925

?

A-1440

Slomowicz

Josef

28 Jan. 1931

?

A-1441

Slomowicz

Idel (Juda)

26 Jun. 1933

?

A-2517

Slomowicz

Lazar Lajoz

8 May 1926

27 Jan. 1945

A-1438

Slomowicz (Slomovitz)

Simon

19 Dec. 1897

?

A-2516

Slomowiecz (Slomowicz)

Salomon

8 May 1926

27 Jan. 1945

77303

Sluschakova

Wala

3-4

?

?

Solomon

Shaul Almog

?

L

?

Solomon

Slomo Almog

?

L

A-1

Solomon

Rosalia

9

27 Jan. 1945

A-17454

Somogyi

Peter

14 Apr. 1935

27 Jan. 1945

A-17455

Somogyi

Tomas

14 Apr. 1935

27 Jan. 1945

?

Spiegel

Magda Zalikovich

5 Jan. 1915

27 Jan. 1945

A-7729

Spiegel

Ernst Czvi

5 Jan. 1915

27 Jan. 1945

A-23221

Spirova

Frida

9

?

A-27880

Spirova

Dora

9

27 Jan. 1945

A-14328

Stadler

Andor

10 Jun. 1929

?

A-7258

Stadler

Vera

10 Jun. 1929

?

A-27712

Stein

Judith

14

27 Jan. 1945

147742

Steiner

Zdenek

20 May 1929

27 Jan. 1945

147743

Steiner

Georg

20 May 1929

27 Jan. 1945

B-10504

Steiner

Endre

9 Jun. 1929

?

B-10505

Steiner

Zoltan

9 Jun. 1929

?

B-14566

Steiner

Jindrich

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-8272

Stern

Lea

14

27 Jan. 1945

A-8273

Stern

Hojnol

14

27 Jan. 1945

81769

Stockfisch

Hariette

3

27 Jan. 1945

147673

Stolz

Zdenek

21 Aug. 1921

?

A-9751

Storch

Lenke

30

L

A-60

Storch (Stroch)

 

?

?

A-9752

Storch (Weiss)

Olga

30

L

A-27126

Strauss

Gitta

10

27 Jan. 1945

A-27127

Strauss

Lilly

12

27 Jan. 1945

B-14272

Strauss

D.J.

8

27 Jan. 1945

?

Stroch

Jakob

15

?

168786

Süsser

Fritz

21 Apr. 1904

93

170896

Süsser

Hans

21 Apr. 1904

94

A-14094

Szandor

Josef (Henryk)

10 Jun. 1931

27 Jan. 1945

?

Taub

Yizchak

?

L

?

Taub

Zerah

?

L

A-2507

Taub

Georg

18 Feb. 1933

95

A-2508

Taub

Imre

18 Feb. 1933

96

A-6900

Teller

K.J.

14 ¾

27 Jan. 1945

A-3100

Tesler

Hermann

1931

27 Jan. 1945

A-3101

Tesler

Uszer

1931

27 Jan. 1945

A-23492

Traub

E.

5

27 Jan. 1945

A-23493

Traub

Hanka

5

27 Jan. 1945

188933

Van Gelder

Eddi

3

27 Jan. 1945

?

Vigozcka

Rachel Vachtel

?

L

?

Vigozcka

Sarah Lushek

?

L

188934

Viskoper

Robert

6

27 Jan. 1945

?

Vissan

(twin brother)

?

97

?

Vissan

Yuppy Yan

?

L

A-7046

Wasserman

Gisella

16

27 Jan. 1945

A-7045

Wassermann

Frieda

16

27 Jan. 1945

?

Weinberger

Irene

14

?

?

Weinheber

Berta

15

?

A-6031

Weiser

Fanny

20

?

A-6032

Weiser

Jolan

20

?

?

Weiss

Jonathan Bandy

?

L

?

Weiss

Mayer (Bela)

?

L

A-160

Weiss

?

?

?

A-27197

Weiss

Migrun

6

27 Jan. 1945

A-27202

Weiss

M.E.

10

27 Jan. 1945

A-3626

Weiss

Olga

?

?

A-3627

Weiss

Malvine

?

?

A-3634

Weiss

Edith

1926

27 Jan. 1945

A-3635

Weiss

Piroska

1926

27 Jan. 1945

A-5554

Weiss

Lili

14 Nov. 1930

27 Jan. 1945

A-6026

Weiss

Ewa

10 Aug. 1922

27 Jan. 1945

A-6027

Weiss

Vera

10 Aug. 1922

27 Jan. 1945

A-8270

Weiss

Anna

19

L

A-8271

Weiss

Katalin

19

L

B-14354

Weiss

Jurai

7 months

27 Jan. 1945

A-27199

Weisshefer

B.E.

14 ¾

27 Jan. 1945

?

Weisz

Marta

11

?

A-12085

Weisz

Bela

8 Nov. 1930

27 Jan. 1945

A-12086

Weisz

Andor (Andre)

8 Nov. 1930

27 Jan. 1945

A-2509

Weisz

Hermann

3 May 1926

?

A-2510

Weisz

Lajosz

3 May 1926

?

A-27201

Weisz

Eva E.

13

27 Jan. 1945

A-27660

Weisz

Elisabeth

11

27 Jan. 1945

A-5108

Weisz (Weiss)

Sandor

1 Feb. 1930

?

?

Weiszmann

Ibolya

13

?

A-2520

Wiesel

Hermann

14 Feb. 1930

27 Jan. 1945

A-2521

Wiesel

Siegmund

14 Feb. 1930

?

A-27208

Winter

Erika

13

27 Jan. 1945

B-14348

Winter

Otto

10

27 Jan. 1945

?

Winzorek

Bogasta

15

?

186644

Wittenberg

Imre

2 Jun. 1925

?

?

Wolkowitz

Rifka

5

?

?

Wolkowitz

Fischel

8

?

B-14880

Worstmann (Workman)

Gabor

14

27 Jan. 1945

?

Wurms

Juda

15

?

?

Zawer 

Miri Sheinberger

?

L

?

Zawer

Sarah Tigherman

?

L

B-14827

Zelewski

Leib

12

27 Jan. 1945

B-14828

Zelewski

Samuel

12

27 Jan. 1945

A-5418

Zelikowic

Magda

?

?

A-3102

Zelmanowitz

Mor

7 Jun. 1931

27 Jan. 1945

A-5419

Zelmanowitz

Eva

7 Jun. 1931

27 Jan. 1945

?

Zucker

Maria

13

?

A-27772

Zwischberg

Vera

12

27 Jan. 1945

Abbreviations

AGK: Archiwum Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej (Archives of the Central Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish People – National Memorial), Warsaw

APMO: Archiwum Państwowego Muzeum Oświęcim-Brzezinka (Archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum)

GARF: Gosudarstvenni Archiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii (State Archives of the Russian Federation, Moscow)

RGVA: Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennii Vojennii Archiv (Russian State Military Archives), Moscow

Notes:

1 Hefte von Auschwitz. Verlag des Staatliches Auschwitz-Museum,  no. 20, 1997,  pp. 369-455.

2 H. Kubica, „Dr. Mengele und seine Verbrechen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau“, in Hefte von Auschwitz, p. 376.

3 Ibid, p. 381.

4 Ibid.

5 Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Documents sur l’activité du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge en faveur des civils détenus dans les camps de concentration en Allemagne (1939-1945). Second edition, Geneva, 1946, pp. 91-92.

6H. Kubica, „Dr. Mengele und seine Verbrechen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau“, op. cit., p. 389.

7 Ibid, p. 379.

8 AAVV, Noma (cancrum oris): questions and answers, in: http://www.munksgaard.dk/pdf/117pdf.nsf/all/521440/$FILE/odi0050211.pdf

9 Th. Grotus, J. Parcer, «EDV-gestützte Auswertung der Sterbeeinträge», in: Sterbebücher von Auschwitz. Published by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. K.G.Saur. Munich, New Providence, London, Paris, 1995, p. 248.

10 H. Kubica, „Dr. Mengele und seine Verbrechen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau“, op. cit., p. 379.

11 Ibid, p. 380.

12 Ibid, p. 379.

13 Ibid, p. 390.

14 Ibid, p. 396.

15 Ibid, p. 397.

16 Ibid, p. 390.

17 Ibid, p. 403.

18 Ibid, p. 382.

19 Ibid, p. 387.

20 APMO, D-AuI-3/1; D-AuII-3a/16; D-AuII-3a/25-49.

21 H. Kubica, «Dr. Mengele und seine Verbrechen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau», op. cit., p. 404.

22 G.L. Posner, J. Ware, Mengele. The Complete Story (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1986).

23 R.J. Lifton, I medici nazisti. La psicologia del genocidio. Rizzoli, Milan, 1988, pp. 338-340, 456-457, 467, 469, 471, 475, 478-479, 482, 492, 595.

24 H. Kubica, „Dr. Mengele und seine Verbrechen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau“, op. cit., p. 385.

25 Ibid, pp. 378, 384, 404, 405 e 408.

26  M. Nyiszli, Medico ad Auschwitz. Longanesi, Milano, 1977, p. 51.

27  “An die internationale Öffentlichkeit”, Auschwitz, den 4. März 1945. GARF, 7021-108-46, p. 11, with handwritten signature of B. Epstein.

28 Terezínská pamĕtní kniha. Terezínská Iniciativa, Melantrich, 1995, vol. I, p. 333.

29 G.L. Posner, J. Ware, Mengele. The complete story, op. cit., p. 329.

30 See the brief biography on http://lastexpression.northwestern.edu/Bios/bio_gottliebova_top.html.

31 H. Kubica, „Dr. Mengele und seine Verbrechen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau», op. cit., p. 429.

32 May be consulted at: http://www.candles-museum.com/Twinlist.htm

33 H. Kubica, „Dr. Mengele und seine Verbrechen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau“, op. cit., pp. 437-455.

34 L. Picciotto Fargion, Il libro della memoria. Gli Ebrei deportati dall'Italia (1943-1945). Mursia Editore, Turin, 1995, p. 157.

35  Ibid, p. 266.

36  Ibid, p. 217.

37 Arbeitseinsatz für den 16. Januar 1945. RGVA, 502-1-67, p. 17a.

38 See table -

39 GARF, 7021-108-23.

40  See table 2.

41  H. Kubica, „Dr. Mengele und seine Verbrechen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau“, op. cit., p. 442, 449, 451.

42 Z. Zofka, „Der KZ-Arzt Mengele zur Typologie eines NS-Verbrechers“, in: Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte Vol. 34, No. 2, (1986) pp. 245-267.

43 The reference to the witnesses who appeared in Mengele’s trial held in absentia in February 1985 in Jerusalem.

44 Z. Zofka, „Der KZ-Arzt Mengele zur Typologie eines NS-Verbrechers“, op. cit.,  pp. 246-247.

45 Ibid, pp.259-260.

46 Ibid, p. 260.

47 Ibid, p. 247.

48 Ibid, p. 257, 258, 260, 262, 263.

49 Nyiszli, Miklos, I Was Dr. Mengele’s Assistant. Oswiecim, , 2001 (reprint)

50 NI-11710.

51 Sugarco Edizioni, Milan, 1985.

52 “Medico ad Auschwitz”: Anatomia di un falso. La Sfinge, Parma, 1988.

53 Let us summarise what I wrote in La soluzione finale. problemi e polemiche. Edizioni di Ar, Padua, 1991, pp. 200-207 (“The Problem of the False Testimonies”) and in the article “Vulgärer Berufsbetrüger” [“Just a Common   Swindler”] , in: Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung, year 6, no. 2, June 2002, pp. 231-232.

54 Processo Höss, volume 11, pp. 47-48.

55 See, in this regard, my study Il numero dei morti di Auschwitz. Vecchie e nuove imposture. I Quaderni di Auschwitz,1.  Effepi Editore, Genoa, 2004.

56 The coke-fired ovens had to be shut down once per day to clean the fuel slag off the grills on the gas generators.

57 See, in this regard, my article „Flammen und Rauch aus Krematoriumskaminen“ in: Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung, year 7, Nos. 3 & 4, December 2003, pp. 386-391.

58 Chlorine is about 2.4 times the density of air at 25°C.

59 Hydrogen cyanide is about 0.9 times the density of air at 30°C.

60 The Holocaust historian Georges Wellers has written: “In other words, hydrocyanic acid vapours are lighter than air and therefore rise in the atmosphere”. G. Wellers, „Die zwei Giftgase“ (“The Two Poison Gases”), in: Nationalsozialistiche Massentötungen durch Giftgas. Eine Dokumentation.  By Eugen Kogon, Hermann Langbein, Adalbert Rückerl et al, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1983, p. 283.

61 See, in this regard, my study Auschwitz: un caso di plagio. Edizioni La Sfinge, Parma, 1986.

62 G. Wellers, „Die zwei Giftgase“ (“The Two Poisonous Gases”), in: Nationalsozialistiche Massentötungen durch Giftgas. Eine Dokumentation.  By Eugen Kogon, Hermann Langbein, Adalbert Rückerl et al. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1983, p. 283.

63 M. Nyiszli, Dr. Mengele boncolóorvosa voltam az auschwitz-i krematóriumban, op. cit.,  p. 6.

64 Charles D. Provan , „Miklos Nyiszli und sein Auschwitz-Buch in neuem Licht», in: Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung, year 6, no. 1, April 2002, p. 44.

65 Trial of  War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law n° 10, volumes VII and  VIII. Nurernberg, October 1946-April 1949.

66 GARF, 7021-108-23, pp. 179-198 e 200-217.

67 Bucci Tatiana Liliana.

68 Bucci  Alessandra.

69 Rajngevic Cecilie, born on 22 Jan. 1931. Le mémorial de la déportation des Juifs de France. Edited and published by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, Paris, 1978, transport no.74 of 20 May 1944.

70 Reichmann Friedel,born on 16 Jun. 1935. S. Klarsfeld, M. Steinberg, Mémorial de la déportation des Juifs de Belgique. The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York, 1994, p. 435, transport XXV of 19 May 1944.

71 “Died at the camp as a result of experiments performed.”

72 Bucci  Alessandra.

73 Bucci Tatiana Liliana.

74 Evacuated to Germany in November 1944, liberated there on 3 or 4 May 1945.

75 Evacuated to Germania in November 1944, liberated there on 3 or 4 May 1945.

76 Died on the evacuation transport on 27 January 1945 in Czechoslovakian territory.

77 Died after the liberation.

78 Died on 3 March 1945.

79 Evacuated to Ravensbrück, liberated near Lipsia.

80 Died in Auschwitz concentration camp.

81 Died in the camp on 26 August 1944.

82 Evacuated to Buchenwald.

83 Evacuated to Buchenwald, died on 11 March 1945.

84 Transferred to Buchenwald in October 1944.

85  Died on 14 Mar. 1945.

86 Transferred to Buchenwald in November 1944.

87 Transferred to Buchenwald in November 1944.

88 “Died in the camp as a result of the experiments performed on him.”

89 “Died in the camp as a result of the experiments performed on her.”

90 Died on  16 Mar.1945.

91 Died at Auschwitz.

92 Died at Auschwitz.

93 In 1945 to Gross-Rosen concentration camp, then evacuated to Dachau concentration camp.

94 In 1945 to Gross-Rosen concentration camp, then evacuated to Dachau concentration camp.

95 In 1945 evacuated to Buchenwald concentration camp.

96 In 1945 evacuated to Buchenwald concentration camp.

97 Died at Auschwitz.

Article previously published under the title Il dottor Mengele e i gemelli di Auschwitz. Effepi, Genoa, 2008.

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