Survivors In The Dentist Of Auschwitz: A Memoir

Doctors were not only medical profession in the camp, the book, The Dentist of

Auschwitz: A Memoir was written by a dentist survivor. The Jewish dentist, Jaubowicz, was at the camp when Dr. Mengele chose sixty inmates to be taken to Auschwitz II, Birkenau.

Jaubowicz states in chapter fourteen, Mengele’s selections were the beginning of selections. Doctors came to Furstengrube every week. Dr. Konig took an impression for an SS man to make a bridge. He asked Jaubowicz if he had gold to make the bridge and when Jaubowicz said he did not, Konig told him to take the gold teeth from dead inmates. Jaubowicz states, "I felt revulsion. I did not think that anyone could stoop that low." 45

Dr. Schatz replaced Dr. Konig and was friendly to Jaubowicz. He told Jaubowicz to look at

The Jews have been the only people accused of deicide and this caused hatred from Christians. During the diaspora, the Jews settled in the Mediterranean countries, although they settled as far away as Europe. Constant uprooting prevented the Jews from becoming agriculturalists and pastoralists, therefore they worked at trades. During the middle ages, the Jews made ornamental glass objects and worked at money lending. They were seen as prosperous and resented by the people of the countries where they settled. Resentment built against the Jews by the less prosperous people of the settled countries. The attitude of the Christian church was summed up, from our lecture, by John Chrysostom who wrote: “The Jews are the odious assassins of Christ and for killing God there is no expiation possible, no indulgence or pardon.” The churches were reluctant to help the Jews during the holocaust because of the long-standing hatred. The Jews caught in German-occupied areas after World War I had little help except for few organizations and many countries did