Testimony of Pejsach Bursztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Birkenau

Testimony of Pejsach Bursztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Birkenau 

Testimony of Pejsach Bursztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Birkenau 

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Testimony of Pejsach Bursztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Birkenau Description of the site intended for construction of Auschwitz; building of Auschwitz, 1941 [should be: 1940]; deportation of the first political inmates from Germany to Auschwitz; abuse of the inmates; erection of the first gas chamber in the bunker; building of Auschwitz2-Birkenau, winter 1942 [should be: 1941]; activating the gas chambers in Birkenau; burning of corpses by inmates known as"Sonderkommand" workers; building of approximately 400 blocks; building the crematorium; building modernized gas chambers; deportation of thousands of Jews from Europe to Birkenau in order to murder them; selections in the camp; deception of the victims before their murder; extracting gold teeth from the mouths of the corpses; building Crematorium Number 4, 1944 [should be: 1943]; building Crematorium Number 5, 1944 [should be: 1943]; transfer of 400 crates containing the eyeglasses of those murdered to Germany; shearing the hair of the women before their entry into the gas chambers; finding approximately seven tons of hair in the camp after the war; murder of pregnant women in the gas chambers; sterilization of 300 young men by X-rays, January 1942; medical experimentation on the inmates; murder of inmates on whom the experiments were conducted; life of the inmates in the camp, including forced labor, morbidity and mortality from exhaustion and starvation; operating the four crematoria 24 hours a day; sexual abuse of beautiful European women by German Kapos and Blockaltestes in Block 21; murder of inmates by shooting in the"Enke" (?) of Block 11; work of Sonderkommando men burning corpses; Sonderkommando Uprising, autumn 1944; murder of approximately 10,000 inmates per hour in the gas chambers; preparation of pits for burning the corpses due to pressure in the crematoria; burning of bodies in the pits; most of the Jewish victims were from Theresienstadt, Greece, France and Poland including children from Bialystok accompanied by Dr. Katzenelson; evacuation of the inmates performing forced labor, November 1944; termination of gas chamber activities, November 1944; partial obliteration of the signs of murder by the Germans; liquidation of the camp, 12 January 1945; demolition of the last crematorium; liberation of the camp by the Red Army, 18 January 1945.