The following description was given by Eduard Kornfeld, a Holocaust survivor, who is still alive and well. You can read his story in full at
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a37kbk/portraits-of-europes-remaining-holocaust-survivors
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Eduard Kornfeld was born in 1929 near Bratislava, Slovakia. He was taken to Auschwitz and several other concentration camps. On April 29, 1945, he was freed by American troops from the Dachau camp in Germany, weighing only 60 pounds at the time. His mother Rosa, his father Simon and his siblings Hilda, Josef, Alexander, and Rachel were all murdered in the camps. Kornfeld arrived in Switzerland in 1949 and was nursed in Davos, Switzerland for four years as he recovered from severe tuberculosis. Later, he trained to become a gemstone setter in Zurich. He has two sons, a daughter, and seven grandchildren.
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The following quote is the words of Eduard Kornfeld:
“We were deported in a cattle car, the journey took three days. When the train suddenly stopped, I heard someone shouting outside in German, ‘Get out!’ I looked out of the carriage and saw Nazi officers beating people they thought were moving too slowly. A mother wasn’t moving quick enough because she was trying to take care of her child, so the officers took her infant and threw him in the same truck they put the old and sick in. Those people were sent to be gassed immediately.”
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My photo of a Nazi gas chamber at Auschwitz
How does Eduard Kornfeld know that the people on the truck were “gassed immediately”? Was there a sign that said “This way to the gas chamber”?
Did the Nazi officer say: “Listen up, you stupid Jews. We are taking these people to the gas chamber, but we are allowing you to live, so that there will be Jews who can tell the story in future years.”
I lived in Germany for 20 months after World War II, and I met many German men. I was amazed at how nice they were. The German men were very polite and charming. I assume that they were also polite and charming as they led the Jews to the gas chamber.
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Did you know ? Jewish newspaper tell there is still 500.000 holocaust survivors in 2017.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/01/25/remembering-the-holocaust-forgetting-the-survivors/
Comment by Noel — November 6, 2017 @ 2:00 pm
You wrote: “there is still 500.000 holocaust survivors in 2017.”
I believe that a meager diet, and lots of vegetables, is the reason that these people are still alive today.
Comment by furtherglory — November 6, 2017 @ 4:04 pm
Here’s a life expectancy table for you FG:
https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/population/longevity.html
So, for instance, a person alive today who was born in 1930 (87 years old now), on average, could expect to live an additional 6 years.
500,000 is about 10% of the alleged survivors at war’s end (about 5 million “survivors”). So 90% of them have already died.
Comment by blake121666 — November 6, 2017 @ 5:15 pm
I missed to specify: only in Israel
Comment by Noel — November 7, 2017 @ 2:18 am
I doubt if 10 % of ” survivors ” are alive inless you count all the infants as well. As a comparison you could cite the 3000 RAF pilots of the Battle of Britain ie the ” few ” . They had an average age of 20 . As of 2017 there are 10 still living.
Comment by peter — November 7, 2017 @ 2:33 am
Well, according to this:
http://time.com/4392413/elie-wiesel-holocaust-survivors-remaining/
there are only about 100,000 alive as of July 3, 2016 or thereabouts. That would then be about 2% of the number at WWII’s end.
According to the CDC’s life tables for the US, the latest of which is here:
Click to access nvsr66_03.pdf
about 2% of persons born in 1913 were alive in 2013 in the US.
So 2% to 10% of Holocaust “survivors” still being alive today, 72 years after WWII’s end, is nothing particularly unusual. It is actually much lower than one would expect for a US citizen (78% live over 70 years of age).
FG doesn’t understand statistics.
Comment by blake121666 — November 7, 2017 @ 3:54 pm
Um I m not sure blake121666 understands statistics either.! ” Roughly 1 person in every 6,000 reach their 100th birthday today. Fifty years ago, only 1 person in every 67,000 reached the century mark.”
http://www.genealogyintime.com/GenealogyResources/Articles/how_many_people_live_to_100_page1.html
Comment by peter — November 7, 2017 @ 4:23 pm
We’re concerned with persons born before 1945. Not with persons born 150 years ago who were alive 50 years ago. Everything I have written here concerns persons alive today who were born before 1945. Anything else is irrelevant.
BTW, longevity has gone down in the past few decades in the USA. But that has nothing to do with what we’re talking about either.
Comment by blake121666 — November 7, 2017 @ 4:56 pm
So, are borned child in concentration camps can be considered as survivors of an extermintion ?
Comment by Noel — November 7, 2017 @ 5:07 pm
You wrote: “So, are borned child in concentration camps can be considered as survivors of an extermintion ?”
Yes, the babies who were born in concentration camps are survivors. I wrote about them on my website at
https://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauBabies.html
Comment by furtherglory — November 8, 2017 @ 10:00 am
Anyone who lived in any Axis-controlled territory between 1933 and 1945 is classified as a “survivor”. Technically, Albert Einstein was a “Holocaust survivor” because he technically emigrated to the USA in April ’33.
Comment by blake121666 — November 7, 2017 @ 6:46 pm
https://www.ushmm.org/remember/the-holocaust-survivors-and-victims-resource-center/benjamin-and-vladka-meed-registry-of-holocaust-survivors/registry-faq#11
https://www.haaretz.com/who-counts-as-a-holocaust-survivor-1.119868
Comment by blake121666 — November 7, 2017 @ 6:49 pm