- Headline
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Slaughter Of Jews Exposed
- Publication Date
- Thursday, April 12, 1945
- Historical Event
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Eisenhower Asks Congress and Press to Witness Nazi Horrors
This database includes 1,688 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 11
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- NEAR ERFURT, Germany. April 11. —(AP)—Dr. Bela Fabian, president of the dissolved Hungarian Independent Democratic party, accused the Germans Wednesday of killing 5,000,000 Jews at the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) extermination camp in Polish Silesia from which he himself narrowly escaped.
Fabian declared the executions were carried out in a 10-month period.
He said all Jews over 50 were automatically condemned to the gas chamber and crematory as were the weak and sickly and young mothers who refused to leave their children. "If the captain did not like the looks of anyone else they were gassed too." he said.
Many died of overwork, starvation and beatings before the gas chamber could receive them, Fabian said. The officer in charge, he continued, employed a dramatic flourish of the hand in ordering entire groups taken away to be gassed and cremated without questioning or examining them to learn if they were guilty of any wrong.
Three others liberated with Fabian corroborated his story and said it a "miracle" that Fabian still lived. They said he owed his life to the fact that Germans believed him when he said he was only 46 years old.
The other three are Heinz Meyer 22, Hungarian violinist; Desidor Kohlman, 34, a Bratislavan, and Sam Ezratty, 28, a Greek medical student.
Fabian, who said he once had lunch with President Roosevelt, asked that Congressman Sol Bloom (D., N. Y.) be notified he is safe. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Steven B.
- Location of Research
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Bridgman, Jon. End of the Holocaust: The Liberation of the Camps. Portland, OR: Areopagitica Press, 1990.
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Goodell, Stephen, and Kevin Mahoney. 1945: The Year of Liberation. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995.
Goodell, Stephen, and Susan D. Bachrach. Liberation 1945. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995.
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