Nedsänkt i hett vatten

Nedsänkt i hett vatten. Enligt ett vittnesmål publicerat av Claims Conference utfördes under Förintelsen medicinska experiment genom att sänka ned fångar i hett vatten. Experimentet ska ha utförts av Josef Mengele i koncentrationslägret Auschwitz mars till april 1944.

Vittnesmål från Ms. G, Age 81

"Each day I was submerged in hot water. Whenever I tried to put my head out of the water in order to breathe I was forced back into the water by Dr. Josef Mengele’s stick. He was enjoying himself. This lasted for 10 minutes. I was immediately afterwards put into cold water and the same procedure was repeated. There were five [people] including myself undergoing the same process. After these daily sessions we were taken to barrack No. 8 - Auschwitz, which was destined [for] those who were to die, to see for how long we were going to survive. A [woman] passing by saw me gesturing and crying for help through a hole in a plank of the wooden barrack. She loosened the plank and wrapped me. I was saved. I know nothing about the fate of the other four persons."

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