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Revisionists have argued that witnesses have mentioned various aspects
of Auschwitz which are in extreme contrast to the notion of Auschwitz
as an extermination camp. It is not argued that such descriptions,
which are often mentioned only in passing, dominate the narratives,
but such descriptions are argued to indicate that the image of
Auschwitz is paradoxical.
Theater: cinema, cabaret, orchestra of all nationalities, members most
Jews; Alma Rose, niece of composer Gustav Mahler, was conductor of the
women’s orchestras; Ignaz Speiser as famous violinist, Szymon Laks,
composer, violinist, conductor of the camp orchestra; choirs; Russian
ballet, Italian orchestra.
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Sport and Fitness: sport field; soccer games between SS soldiers and
inmate functionaries; children playground, table tennis; kindergarten,
school for Jews from Theresienstadt; green areas for inmates to rest,
flower beds; swimming pool, water polo; sauna; brothel.
Contact from and to the Outside World: Sending and receiving letters;
parcel reception for Jews; 50,000 parcels to Jews; one parcel per
month and Jew; releases; inmates worked together with Polish civilians
and British POW, smuggling mail and documents; inmates with special ID
leave camp without guards; good escape chances, 90% successful; visit
by commission of the International Red Cross in September 1944;
listening to Allied radio stations.
Bureaucracy: Welfare department replies to inquiries from outside,
gives advice in legal affairs, inheritances, births, weddings, deaths,
and release of property of deceased inmates to relatives; camp
administration reports any unnatural death to public prosecutor; 30
signatures necessary for death certificate; urn depot, remainders of
deceased inmates sent to relatives; death notification for relatives
in Czechia.
Work and Family: Harmony between Aryan and Jewish colleagues and
colleagues in higher positions; women labor camp with sewing room and
weaving mill; only a fraction of all inmates works, in May 1944 11,331
are not capable to work; family camp for gypsies; inmates wear civil
clothes and long hair, many births within the camp; children block for
orphans; family camp for Jews from Theresienstadt.
Food and Health: Inmate canteen; inmate hospital with several hundred
beds; sick books; recovery for future labor; double food rations,
surgery rooms, X-ray equipment; dentist office; woman confined to bed
due to nerve disease well taken care of, testifying after war; typhus
epidemic in summer 1942: more than 200 casualties each day, also under
civilians and SS men; SS physician Dr. Schwela succumbs; proper food
for inmates; 1,800 calories per day; foreign workers for hard labor
get up to 4,000, more than a German engineer; 4,800 sick and immobile
inmates remain in Auschwitz under supervision of physicians; inmates
oppose relocation to other camp.