“Auschwitz. A Monograph on the Human”. Part 2. Death

The book ‘Auschwitz. A Monograph on the Human’ is the first of its kind in the world to try to depict human emotions within the reality of Auschwitz camp. Its author, Museum Director Dr. Piotr Cywiński, draws on fragments of memoirs and testimonies from more than 450 Survivors. It is the words of these direct witnesses that form the basis of this reflection on the human condition amid the process of dehumanization at the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. In the podcast, we present ten chapters of this unique story about humanity facing the most extreme test.

Part 2 – Death

Read by: Grey Stafford

Adaptation for the podcast: Agnieszka Juskowiak-Sawicka

Music: JivexMusic

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Testimonies and memoirs used into the podcast:

Filip Müller (29236), “Auschwitz Inferno. The Testimony of a Sonderkommando”, trans. Susanne Flatauer (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979), p. 12.

Hilda Hrabovecká (n.n.), “Arm With a Tattooed Number” (Bratislava: Marenčin PT, 2002), p. 39.

Ester Friedman (A-26615), „Daleka droga do domu”, p. 77.

Jadwiga Apostoł-Staniszewska (26273), „Echa okupacyjnych lat”, p. 307.

Jerzy Pozimski (1099), Account in: Testimonies, vol. 52, p. 170.

Maria Ślisz-Oyrzyńska (40275), cited in: Ryn, Kłodziński (20019), „Śmierć”, p. 82.

Bronisław Jureczek (26672), Account in: Testimonies, vol. 3, p. 404.

Jan Stawarz (39534), cited in: Ryn, Kłodziński (20019), „Śmierć”, p. 61.

Isidore Greengrass (87224), “Judaism Is Indestructible”, p. 83.

Stanisław Kobylański (575), Account in: Memoirs, vol. 2, p. 267.

Zalmen Gradowski (n.n.), “From the Heart of Hell”, p. 110.

Henryk Król (1183), Account in: Testimonies, vol. 75, p. 210.

Pelagia Lewińska (32292), Oświęcim, p. 58.

Mieczysław Bednarski (30951), „W szponach Gestapo”, p. 179.

Elisa Springer (A-24020), „Milczenie żywych”, pp. 82-83.

Jadwiga Apostoł-Staniszewska (26273), “Wobec śmierci w Brzezince i Ravensbrück,” Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim (1981), pp. 167-168.

Zofia Kossak (64491), „Z otchłani”, p. 42.

August Kowalczyk (6804), “A Barbed Wire Refrain II”, pp. 44-45.

Konstanty Piekarski (4618), “Escaping Hell”, p. 80.

Tadeusz Sobolewicz (23053), “But I Survived”, pp. 126-127.

Charlotte Delbo (31661), “None of Us Will Return”, pp. 64-65.

Aleksander Giermański (716), cited in: Ryn, Kłodziński (20019), „Śmierć”, pp. 62-63.

Ruth Bindefeld Neray (75912), To Auschwitz and Back (Sudbury: Sudbury Press, 1997), p. 75.

Shari Lebovitz (39439), [“Shari: A True Story”], p. 90.

Miriam Harel (n.n.), „Teraz już możesz płakać”, p. 123.

Raya Kagan (7984), “Des femmes au bureau de l’enfer”, p. 229.

Maria Jezierska (24449), Account in: Testimonies, vol. 8, p. 1145.

Józef Majchrzak (33204), cited in: Ryn, Kłodziński (20019), „Śmierć”, p. 65.

Zofia Posmysz (7566), „Królestwo za mgłą”, p. 141.

Alter Feinsilber (27675), Testimony in the Rudolf Höss trial, [IPN GK 196/82], in: Chronicles of Terror, vol. 5, p. 260.

Felix Rosenthal (176475), Account in: Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 1244.

Wanda Miszewska (44756), Account in: Testimonies, vol. 101, s. 146.

Shlomo Venezia (182727), “Inside the Gas Chambers”, p. 62.

Suzanne Birnbaum (74837), “Une Française juive est revenue” (Maulévrier: Hérault-Editions, 1991), p. 42

Bogusław Dąbrowski (18375), in: Dąbrowski, „Nietypowy więzień Auschwitz-Birkenau”, p. 43.

Julian Kiwała (9143), Account in: Testimonies, vol. 40, p. 171.

Hermann Langbein (60355), “People in Auschwitz”, p. 91.

Roman Taul (1108), Account in: Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 1265.

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Illustration: An excerpt from a work by Marian Kołodziej from the series entitled ‘Labyrinths’.