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“Executioners were hired and brought to Montelupich. Several accounts note that one of the executioners was a dwarf. “He had crossed eyes and because of his low self-esteem, he was doing the job—as executioner.” Hannah Wysocka remembered him well. “And there was a dwarf, a very disproportionate body, the head, the legs, you know, he was said to be for the removal of the stool from below the feet, so when he appeared there, it was known, not when, but that there will be a hanging.”
― Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
― Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
“How terrible is the silence of a crowd of women!” She later summarized that “words may be eloquent, but how much more so is silence, especially the silence of many thousands of people.”
― Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
― Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
“Executioners were hired and brought to Montelupich. Several accounts note that one of the executioners was a dwarf. “He had crossed eyes and because of his low self-esteem, he was doing the job—as executioner.” Hannah Wysocka remembered him well. “And there was a dwarf, a very disproportionate body, the head, the legs, you know, he was said to be for the removal of the stool from below the feet, so when he appeared there, it was known, not when, but that there will be a hanging.” Another”
― Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
― Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Hannah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Hannah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
428 books
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14 friends
149 books
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76 friends
68 books
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31 friends
998 books
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101 friends
690 books
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106 friends
5 books
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12 friends
237 books
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53 friends
419 books
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54 friends
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