Miklos Lengyel: Olga Before And During The Holocaust

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Miklos Lengyel – Miklos was the husband of Olga before and during the Holocaust. He was the director of his own hospital in Cluj, Transylvania. He was very skilled in his practice and devoted a lot of time and effort into it. Miklos was a smart man and knew that he was always in a state of peril because of the German occupation. Early in 1944, an incident occurred. Miklos was accused of boycotting German pharmaceutical preparations in his hospital. He was able to get out of this situation, but it was not long before he was brought in again. In May, Miklos was brought in again and this time, he was being deported to Germany. At this point, Miklos and his family were sent to Auschwitz and Birkenau. He was separated from his wife while his children …show more content…

Dr. Pasche – Pasche was a member of the underground. He was a French doctor and part of the Sonderkommando. He gathered statistics about the rate of extermination because he worked in the crematory. Pasche provided the inmates outside of the crematory with information on how it operated. Learning this information was essential in helping Olga write her memoir describing the horrific conditions these prisoners live in. Pasche was not afraid of his fate. He knew that he would die, but hoped that he could make a contribution to the resistance before he did. This is why he kept the statistics of the crematory, so that the world may know what happened in Auschwitz and Birkenau. After one of the crematories was exploded by Sonderkommandos, Dr. Pasche, along with all other crematory workers, were …show more content…

Capezius – Capezius was a Transylvanian man who was a director of the German Bayer Company in Transylvania. He had known Olga before she was imprisoned because his company would send gifts around Christmas to “woo” customers. However, he was now a Hauptsturmfuhrer at Birkenau and a head of pharmaceutical depots of the camps. Even though he knew Olga, he was not generous enough to give her medicine to use on patients in the infirmary. Capezius would often leave the camp to visit his family in Segesvar. On one return from visit, he told one inmate who lived in his community, Dr. Bohm, that he told her brother that he would take care of her. This was not true though because when Segesvar was liberated and Bohm’s brother was made mayor, Bohm was taken as a hostage. So, Capezius only needed her to ensure the safety of his

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