Return to Victims | Witnesses “Euthanasia” Estimates “Of the number of people killed in the T4 and the 14f13 projects, the following statistics are usually given: adult mental patients from institutions, 80,000 to 100,000; children in institutions, 5,000; special action against Jews in institutions, 1,000; concentration camp inmates transported to killing centers (14f13), 20,000 (Klee…
Return to Victims | Witnesses On Gypsies “Like the Jews, Gypsies were singled out by the Nazis for racial persecution and annihilation. They were `nonpersons,’ of `foreign blood,’ `labor-shy,’ and as such were termed asocials. To a degree, they shared the fate of the Jews in their ghettos, in the extermination camps, before firing squads,…
Return to Resistance | Witnesses Lucille E. Story of Liberation We stayed in this camp until the end of March 1945. Then they suddenly put us in trucks. We got off the trucks and they made us walk. We really didn’t walk very well at that time. I leaned on Ellie, Ellie leaned on Sabina….
Return to Survivors | Witnesses Lucille E. Excerpts STORY: Single lines So it’s relative, if you hurt, you hurt differently than the other person. STORY: Sambor, her parents home town in Poland My family was there for; my mother was born there, my grandmother was born there, her mother before her was born nearby. So…
Return to Survivors | Witnesses Helen L. Excerpts STORY: Single lines Well, it’s been a few years since I thought about this or tried not to, at any rate. STORY: Life in her hometown I had two younger sisters and there are four of us left, one brother out of four and two sisters and…