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By Daniel Adamson
Daniel Adamson is a PhD student in the History Department of Durham University. His research centres on educational portrayals of the relationship between Britain and the Holocaust.
&#;When I thought of the past, it often seemed to me that all this was merely a horrible dream. My only desire was to forget everything, to think of nothing&#;.
Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account ()
Introduction
saw the publication, in Romania, of an extraordinary memoir of life as a prisoner at Auschwitz. Its author was Miklós Nyiszli, a Hungarian medical doctor of Jewish descent, who had been arrested alongside his family in , and transferred to Auschwitz in Originally titled I was Dr. Mengele’s Pathologist in Auschwitz, the memoir is now more commonly known as Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account. Within, Nyiszli relates the atrocities he witnessed at Auschwitz, where he was compelled to assist the twisted medical
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“An inscrutable will has sent our people to its death; fate has allotted us the cruelest of tasks, that of participating in our own destruction, of witnessing our own disappearance, down to the very ashes to which we are reduced” (Nyiszli ).
The Sonderkommando was a group of Jewish prisoners that received special treatment for performing some of the most grisly duties in the concentration camp. Members were able-bodied males, selected for their occupation, abilities, or willingness to participate in the group. Their task was to aide in the extermination and disposal of their fellow Jews. They led prisoners into gas chambers with the tale that they were entering showers to be disinfected and would reunite with their families shortly. Then they disposed of the bodies into crematoriums and burning pryes. Members of the Sonderkammando performed these tasks in order to extend their lives for four months and receive extra rations of food, which many
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Miklós Nyiszli
Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz koncentration camp (–)
The native struktur of this personal name is Nyiszli Miklós. This article uses Western name beställning when mentioning individuals.
Miklós Nyiszli (17 June &#;– 5 May ) was a Hungarian prisoner of Jewish heritage at Auschwitz koncentration camp. Nyiszli, his wife, and ung daughter, were transported to Auschwitz in June&#; Upon his ankomst, Nyiszli volunteered as a forensic doctor and was sent to work at No.&#;12 barracks where he mainly performed autopsies. He was beneath the supervision of Josef Mengele, a Schutzstaffel officer and physician.
Mengele decided after observing Nyiszli's skills to move him to a specially built autopsy and operating theatre. The room had been built inside Crematorium&#;II, and Nyiszli, along with members of the 12th Sonderkommando, was housed there.
Early life
[edit]Nyiszli was born 17 June in Szilágysomlyó, Kingdom of Hungary (then the Hungarian-half of Austria-Hungar