Word: crematorium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wanda Jakubowska, the director, was a prisoner at Auschwitz during the reign of terror. She saw the queues of Jewesses waiting for the crematorium, the old women left to die in the mud, and the bones of the murdered babies. From her previous experience before the war with Film Polski, she acquired the talent for realistic sets and atmosphere. The synthesis, "The Last Stop," is her masterpiece...
...Perl was an abortionist. But she plied her terrible trade out of mercy. She has explained: "It was the policy of the Nazis to immediately put to death all Jewish, Polish, Russian and French women who were pregnant, in the gas chambers, and in the crematorium. I aborted them to save their lives." Last winter Congress passed a special bill granting Dr. Perl permanent residence in the U.S., on the urging of Representative Sol Bloom, who praised her "simple humanity" in saving "the lives of more than 3,000 women...
...ghost had merely been laid, not silenced. The pen was still mightier than the pickax. From the crematorium, Trotsky hurled a last indictment. For he had left behind, two thirds completed, the rest in rather full notes, a devastating political biography of his archenemy...
When she stepped ashore in Haifa, she wept. Feige Fried's mother, seven brothers and sisters would never know Palestine's freedom. They had disappeared into the Nazi crematorium at Oswiecim; Feige escaped...
...more than they wanted to eat; they seemed to need a sympathetic listener more than food. Talking steadily, they followed workers around, telling their stories. Those who had been in many different camps wanted to describe the differences. Two Polish boys kept wanting to tell how they had stoked crematorium fires at Auschwitz. A Jewish boy insisted on telling his friends again & again how he used to cut down the bodies of the hanged...