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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. It Really Did Happen There are those that would have you believe the Holocaust of World War II didn’t happen but old people, men and women are now stepping forward to make their indelible mark on history. Elizabeth Fried, now 88, is one of almost 1,800 Jews who have come forward for the first time with accounts of being Hitler’s guinea pigs. Their stories were told to Jewish groups awarding money from Holocaust court settlements, proving that thousands more were tortured under the guise of scientific research than previously thought, according to an expert. A few of the written testimonies submitted to a settlement committee in the last year are being released Monday 26th January 2004, Gideon Taylor, executive vice president of the Conference of Jewish Materials Claims Against Germany said. So far, 1,778 victims of Nazi medical experiments from 33 countries have added their statements. “We certainly didn’t expect this number,” Taylor said. Many were not interested in the $5,400 settlements that will be mailed this week in allowing their stories to be told, though some remained anonymous in their telling. Taylor said such a large number of people making claims indicates there were thousands more who either died during the experiments or in the years since. “Our knowledge has been significantly broadened,” he said. Data collected from the claimants show there were about 178 different types of medical experiments conducted in more than 30 camps and ghettos, and surprisingly, some victims were not Jewish, as it is known a group of Polish nuns were included in the atrocities. “It’s a glimpse into one of the most shocking parts of the Holocaust,” Taylor said. “You just read these testimonies. It forces you to believe the unbelievable. These people have been through hell. There’s no other way to describe it.” He said it was “closer to torture than it is to anything you could call medicine.” In the submissions likely to change the way history books chronicle one of the worst horrors of the Holocaust, several victims have agreed to let their names be released. Among those was Polish born US resident Hyman Turenshine, 76, who said he remained silent for years about the sterilisation experiments he underwent in Auschwitz in 1944 but was motivated to speak out by those who suggest the Holocaust never happened. Written statements by Turenshine and others who are speaking out will be given to Holocaust institutions, including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. “Every day when I go to wash or shave, I look down at the tattoo on my arm and am reminded and haunted by everything that happened,” Turenshine said. “The payment isn’t what’s important to me. Instead, our stories need to become part of a permanent historical record.” Fried said Mengele included her in his experiments for eight months in 1944 because she was a twin. She said the experiments took away her ability to have children. “Dr. Mengele took blood often and gave me injections. He never looked me in the eye. I also had to cook and clean for him as if I were his maid,” she wrote. One 82 year old man described an experiment in which the Nazis unleashed dogs with poison on their teeth to chase him and another man to rip flesh from their legs. Another 73 year old woman told of Mengele pulling her from a line of people heading to the gas chambers at Auschwitz to go his laboratory, where she was injected with drugs and chemicals or were “they made cuts into my body and left the wounds open for them to study.” “I was used as a guinea pig for medical experiments,” she writes and at another point she says, “As bad as the experiments were, without them I would not be here today to write this.” What surprises me from the terror and torture they underwent, the memory burned on their minds, is the longevity of these people. The survival technique ever operating, there are people to day suffering in their own ways, as life has its pitfalls and nastiness, and yet they die young but again through the twentieth century scientists messed with chemicals in industry causing people to die from cancer and other extremes of illnesses. Just a mental note. It Really Did Happen written by Bill Barber |
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