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>Holocaust survivors reveal unusual Nazi cruelty
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>Updated 12:54 AM PT February 15, 2011
>By Anastasio Philemon, World News Service, Los Angeles (WNS-LA)
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>Revelations continue to emerge of Hitlerite brutality against Jewish
>concentration camp prisoners. Reports surfacing in recent former
>prisoner associations' statements reveal a hitherto unreported fact
>that during their World War 2 incarceration at Auschwitz, Ravensbruck,
>and Chelmno, prisoners were routinely denied the use of toilet paper.
>Further cruelty by the Nazi SS guards was demonstrated when prisoners
>were forced to use sand paper in place of regular issue toilet tissue.
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>“Those SS beasts forced me to use it,” described Anna Rosenstein, a
>former Auschwitz survivor. “They even had Kapos (selected Jewish
>prisoners acting as collaborative overseers for the SS over other
>prisoners) checking to make sure we used the sand paper, doing spot
>checks when they suspected we weren’t following regulations. Some of
>us were beaten, whipped, or spanked when the sand paper was found to
>be unused. It was terrible!”
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>Another prisoner described a public humiliation he was forced to
>endure by a particularly sadistic SS guard. “During the morning
>roll-call, the SS sergeant made me step forward and loudly announce to
>my fellow prisoners that I sometimes didn't use the sand paper
>properly,” said Saul Lewitzky, now a resident of Newport Beach,
>California. “I had to hold up that day's issue of sand paper and shout
>out that I would use it faithfully and properly. I hated them for
>that. Even to this day I can't see sand paper without feeling ill,
>humiliated, degraded, or break out into a fearful sweat.”
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>One former Kapo who pleaded to not be identified admitted the claims
>were true. “I had to oversee the use of the sand paper, I had no
>choice!” he lamented. “If I didn't do as the SS told me, then they
>would have forced me to use the sand paper too instead of the toilet
>tissue which I was privileged to use. But, when the SS wasn't
>watching, I sometimes slipped regular toilet tissue to my fellow
>prisoners in the latrines. I probably saved many Jewish lives that
>way!”
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>Many prisoners developed serious rashes to their private parts as a
>result of the forced use of the sand paper, but when seeking medical
>treatment they were often laughed at by SS medical orderlies. “I could
>hardly even sit down, and the daily trip to the latrine was sheer
>torture,” remembered Leon Aritzky, who now lives in Eilat, Israel. “My
>rash sometimes bled but when asking for medicine, the orderlies always
>burst into laughter and cracked jokes. They sometimes even dangled
>clean toilet paper in front of us — which they were allowed to use,
>but not us — to further humiliate and torture us.”
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>Thousands of prisoners are reported to have died from the use of the
>sand paper.
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>Researchers in Germany have produced wartime photographs of piles of
>industrial sand paper, often shown loaded onto boxcars before shipment
>to concentration camps. Other photographs show empty boxcars prior to
>the loading of the sand paper.
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>Documentation recently viewed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center affirms
>that the sand paper manufacturer of Sweden which filled Nazi German
>orders — and which is a subsidiary of the American Company
>International Industrial Paper Suppliers — knew what the paper was
>being used for but continued to supply it anyway. A SWC spokesman
>announced that it, in conjunction with the World Jewish Congress and
>the International Federation of Jewish Deputies, would be launching
>lawsuits against both the subsidiary and its parent corporation for
>complicity in the Holocaust. Early reports project a seeking of
>damages in the region of US$18 Billion.
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>An IIPS representative made a terse comment about the revelations: “We
>are deeply shocked and saddened to learn of this lamentable wartime
>activity by our company,” stated Thomas Harkins. “A recent company
>board meeting has already authorized meetings with Jewish
>representatives and Holocaust survivor associations to work out
>appropriate compensations. We cannot express our guilt and regrets
>sufficiently. We feel morally indebted to Jewish people for bringing
>these facts to our attention, and we pray that this will never happen
>again.”
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>2011 World News Service.
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