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"Auschwitz Concentration Camp The Gas Chambers & Crematoria Mass Extermination." Holocaust
Education & Archive Research Team. 2012. Web. 31 Mar. 2016.
<http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/auschwitzgaschambers.htm

By Soviet war crimes investigators (In late August 1941 Lagerfuhrer Kart Fritzsch uses the
gas Zyklon B to kill Russian Prisoners of War in the cellar of Block 11. On 4 September
1941 Roll-Call leader Gerhard Palitzsch protected by a gas mask opens the doors and
discovers that one of the POW's is still alive. In the bunker they are crammed together in a
few cells. The cellar windows are blocked up with earth. Then about 600 Russian POWs
officers, and political commissars are driven into the cellar. As soon as they are pushed into
the cells the SS men threw in the Zyklon B gas, the doors were locked and sealed. On 16
September 1941 900 Russian Prisoners of War are gassed in the morgue of the crematorium,
and Commandant Hoss described this in his memoirs. "

"The Dwarves of Auschwitz." 23 Mar. 2013. Web. 29 Mar. 2016.

<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/23/the-dwarves-of-auschwitz>.

It persists despite the fact that the Holocaust Is one of the best documented genocides in
history, with a wide array of evidence documenting virtually every aspect of it. On 19 May
1944, they were brought to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp because they were Jews.

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But, by a twist of fate, their disability played for them. It was rare that one person from an
entire family survived the camp, let alone two, but all 12 members of the Ovitz family. On
the night the Ovitzs arrived, Mengele was asleep in his room at the nearby SS headquarters.
All the troopers on duty at the ramp, however, knew well of his passion, of his collector's
mentality. The reports were sent to high ranking officials in Berlin, and to army, police and
SS officers, as well as diplomats and even prominent industrialists.

Lipstadt, Deborah. "It Never Happened." Denying the Holocaust. 17 Feb. 2011. Web. 29 Mar. 2016.
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/deniers_01.shtml>.

The Ovitz family, from the village of Rozavlea in Transylvania, was the largest recorded
family of dwarves. A dwarf father who sired 10 children, seven of them dwarves.Their
mother, anxious for her children's future, guided them towards a common skill, a profession
in which they could together make a living and would be neither isolated nor ostracized.
Many perpetrators confessed to what they had done during the war, after it was over. For
example, Otto Ohlendorf, commander of one of the Einsatzgruppen units, testified quite
openly that between June 1941 and 1942 his Einsatzgruppe murdered 90,000 people. Some
deniers explain away the confessions by positing that after the war these Germans were
subjected to a barrage of propaganda, and themselves became victims. Throughout history,
dwarves had been entertainers, often part of a circus or vaudeville show.

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Wiesel, Elie, and Marion Wiesel. Night. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a Division of Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 2006. Print.

Elie Wiesel and his family are taken away on a train and his mother and sister are killed in a
crematory. He and his father are taken to a work camp. He gets little food but both he and his father
survive for sometime. His father dies of sickness but he survives until they are liberated by.
Americans. He remembers his face looking like a skeleton it is so thin. Wiesel was 16 when
Buchenwald was liberated by the United States Army in April 1945. His father died after a beating
while Wiesel laid silently on the bunk above for fear of being beaten too. He moved to Paris after the
war.