Word: crematoriums
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...Sophia Litwinska, Polish: "The victims . . . were hauled to the crematorium where they were dumped out like potatoes. Inside the chamber there were cries, tears -people were shaking and striking each other. Then I noticed yellow fumes entering the room. . . . My name was called. I raised my arm, for my voice could not answer. . . . Then someone pulled me out of the chamber, I don't know...
...Many a man who was sent to the dirt-floored buildings of Shinagawa, lone hospital for 8,000 prisoners near Tokyo, simply went to his death. There was no sanitation; patients slept without blankets on flea-ridden mats. The operating tables were bare boards. When the hospital's crematorium was bombed to rubble, prisoners were forced to cremate the dead on spits over an open fire...
...bread. The amount doesn't matter; it was not enough to sustain life. I saw hundreds of Buchenwald's 21,000 (there had been 48,000 but more than half had been evacuated to the interior of Germany) who were as starved as the corpses in the crematorium yard. You cannot adequately describe starved men; they just look awful and unnatural. There was nothing but their bones beneath the tightly stretched skin, none of the roundedness, the curving and the flat places, the swelling muscles which men usually have. They walk or creep or lie around and seem...
...life, his colleagues honored Boris Shaposhnikov. Headed by Marshal Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov, Red marshals, generals and high Soviet officials shouldered his flag-draped, flower-draped coffin and carried it down the dimly lit Okhotny Road to a waiting car which took it to the crematorium...
...camp, known as Struthof-Natzweiler, was found in a thick wood in the Vosges foothills, 30 miles from Strasbourg. Near its rows of dark green huts was a "laboratory" equipped with gas and torture chambers, a crematorium, a vivisection room. There some 20,000 people (mostly Jews) were used and killed...