r gassing prisoners to death, Leichenkeller (corpse cellars) used for storing their bodies, and Einascherungsofen (cremating ovens.) 1E. "In Auschwitz I, prisoners lived in old brick barracks. Several hundred three-tier wooden bunk beds were installed in each building. The overcrowding in Auschwitz I forced basements and lofts into use as living quarters, as well."
             4A. "...Jewish prisoners were subjected to a 'selektion' able young men and women were sent to the forced-labour camp, while the aged, the weak, and children and their mothers were killed. The forced labourers too were periodically 'selected' to weed out those weakened by overwork, disease, or hunger. Some prisoners were also selected for medical experiments such as...performing autopsies on twins in search of means of increasing the Aryan breed...Josef Mengele conducted the latter experiments and supervised the Selektionen." 7D. "Those deported to Auschwitz arrived at the nearby train station and were marched or trucked to the main camp where they were registered, tattooed, undressed, deloused, had their body hair shaven off, showered while their clothes were disinfected with Zyklon-B gas, and entered the camp under the infamous gateway inscribed 'Arbeit Macht Frei' ( 'Labor makes you free.') 1F. "After selections were conducted on the railroad platform, or ramp, newly arrived persons classified by the SS physicians as unfit for labor were sent to the gas chambers: the ill, the elderly, pregnant women, children. In most cases 70-75% of each transport was sent to immediate death. These people were not entered in the camp records; that is they received no serial numbers and were not registered. This I why it is possible only to estimate the total number of victims."
             1D. Auschwitz II included a camp for new arrivals and those to be sent on to labor elsewhere; a Gypsy camp; a fam...