Archive/File: camps/auschwitz/brothel brothel.001 Last-Modified: 1994/10/06 "The four houses reserved for prisoners were going to be shared out as follows: House No. 1 for prostitutes to keep SS, army, and privileged German prisoners amused, and No. 2 for office staff working in the so-called 'political department' and camp administration. No. 3 was intended for laundry and sewing room personnel. 'No. 4 is a mystery,' Magda frowned. 'It is a house just like the other three but completely surrounded by barbed wire, a camp within the camp.' SS Brunner had said we were not permitted to go near the barbed wire of No. 4 and anybody caught speaking to the inmates there would be sent back to Birkenau immediately. We were allowed to visit prisoners of Houses 1 and 2 although No. 1, she hoped, would not be frequented." (Brewster, 95) Brewster later notes that the new camps (the four houses mentioned above) "...had been erected as a showpiece... to be open to the Red Cross for inspection." After moving to the new camp, she and her companions solved the mystery of No. 4, which had been reserved for those "human guinea pigs" to be used for medical experimentation: "Some were sterilized, others had animal sperm implanted, many were( operated on without anesthetic or pain killer of any kind. German 'doctors' performed bone and skin grafts on them and transfusion of incompatable blood types." (Ibid., 99) Work Cited Brewster, Eva. Vanished in Darkness: An Auschwitz Memoir. Edmonton, Alberta: NeWest Publishers Limited, 1984
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