On the borderline of extermination: a narrative of inhumanity

112 Pages·2003·3.8 MB·English

by  Gershkowitz, Joseph

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ON THE BORDERLINE OF
EXTERMINATION
A NARRATIVE OF INHUMANITY
BY
JOSEPH GERSHKOWITZ
AUSCHWITZ HAFTLING 99310
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contents
Dedication.ii
Acknowlegements.iii
Bialystok. 1
Pruzana Ghetto.6
The Last Train with Jews from Pruzana.10
Birkenau Rampe.11
Auschwitz.19
Golishow.29
Evacuation - The First Death March..33
Oranienburg KZ and Flossenburg KZ.35
Plattling.36
The Last Death March.38
Aftermath.40
Reflections.42
A Few Words About Myself.47
Footnotes.49
Glossary.52
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dedication
To the memory of my murdered family and to my relatives and friends who
were murdered by the Nazi barbarians and their anti-Semitic helpers of other
nationalities. I feel it is my moral obligation to tell the story which so many
others could not, or choose not, to tell.
J.G.
February 2003

acknowledgment
1 want to acknowledge my thanks and appreciation to my friends, Inez Casiano
and Dr. Robert W. Hardy, for their help, time and efforts that they put in to correct the
spelling and punctuation and word structure of my memoir, and entering it into the
computer.
Above all, I want to thank them for their patience to listen, debate and advise to
the narrative of those horrible years, and what I suffered in the Nazi inferno.
J.G.