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1 German Extermination Camps: Auschwitz and Birkenau [i] (1944)

handle is hein.hoil/gmnexnc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT WAR REFUGEE BOARD WASHINGTON, D. C. GERMAN EXTEMINATION CAMPS - AUSCHNITZ AND BIRKENAU It is a fact beyond denial that the Germans have deliberately and systematically murdered millions of innocent civilians - Jews and Christians alike - all over Europe. This campaign of terror and brutality which is unprecedented in all history and which even now contiues unabated, is part of the German plan to subju- gate the free peoples of the world. So revolting and diabolical are the German atrocities that the mLnds of civilised people find it difficult to believe that they have actually taken place. Bat the governments of the United States and of other countries have evidence which clearly substantiates the facts. The War Refugee Board is engaged in a desperate effort to save as many as possible of Hitler' s intended victims. To facil- itate its work the Board has representatives in key spots in Europe. These representatives have tested contacts throughout Europe and keep the Board fully advised concerning the German cam- paign of extermination and torture. Recently the Board received from a representative close to the scene two eye-witness accounts of events which occurred in no- torious extermination camps established by the Germans. The first report is based upon the experiences of two young Slovakian Jews who escaped in April, 1944 after spending two years in the Iasi concentration camps at Auschits and Birkenau in southwestern Poland. The second report is made by a non-Jewish Polish major, the only survivor of one group imprisoned at Auschwits. The two reports were prepared independently and are repro- duced exactly in the form they were received by the War Refugee Board, except for a few deletions necessary for the protection of persons who may still be alive. The figures concerning the size of the Jewish convoys and the rwmbers of men and women admitted to the two camps cannot be taken as mathematically exact; and in fact, are declared by the authors to be no more than cnlia appraximations. They are accepted as such by the Board. The Board has every reason to believe that these reports present a true picture of the frightful happenings in these camps. It is making the reports public in the firm conviction that they should be read and understood by all Americans. November, 1944

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