Danny Naten - Auschwitz Escape: The Klara Wizel Story

The Klara Wizel Story

by Danny Naten and R. J. Gifford

Compiled and published by Beverly Naten

Copyright 2012 Danny Naten andR.J.Gifford

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Prologue

The Early Years

Hitler Watch / Moralizing Anti-Semitism

Legalizing Anti-Semitism

Slipping into Darkness / The Last Match

Kill Boxes

Sighet and the German Occupation

Legalized Theft

Serpent Street / The Sighet Ghetto

Deportation / The Nazi Deceit

Dr. Josef Mengele / The Murderer in White

Auschwitz Birkeknau The Final Solution / ASyllabus of Death

The Demoralization Process

Life and Death at Auschwitz

Hedy and Rose

Separated from Rose

Selected by Dr. Josef Mengele

My Escape

Humanity

Mengele on the Run

The Journey Home

The Search Begins

Going to Prague

A Whole New Chapter

The World Gets Bigger

Epilogue

Afterword

And then the tattooNumbers were painfullyinked onto our arms. Mine was A-7845. This was the Nazis way ofpermanently dehumanizing us especially for traditional Jewishfamilies like ours where tattooing is prohibited.

The Klara Wizel Story

by Danny Naten and R. J. Gifford

Compiled and published by Beverly Naten

This book is dedicated to Klara and Beverly,the strongest women I know. Their courage and their heart can teachanyone touched by great loss, whether it be the loss of ageneration or the loss of only one person who was held so dear.

In 1933, former General Erich Ludendorff senta telegram to President Hindenburg regarding the appointment of hisnew chancellor, Adolf Hitler.

By appointing Adolf Hitler Chancellor of the Reich,you have handed over our sacred German fatherland to one of thegreatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy to you this evil manwill plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurablewoe on our nation. Future generations will curse you in your gravefor this action.1

Although Hans Frank, who served asReichsminister and general governor of Poland during the Nazi era,claimed to have read it, an original copy of the telegram has neverbeen found. Hans Frank wrote about the document in his memoirs justbefore his execution as a war criminal. Another source, which wasconsidered to be more reliable, was Captain Wilhelm Breuker, aclose associate of Ludendorff. When Breuker wrote his memoirs in1953, like Hans Frank, he also attested to the existence of thetelegram.

The concern that the telegram ever existedhas caused great debate among the collective competitive insiders,historians, academics, political war buffs, and media. Whether ornot the telegram ever existed can be argued until the end of time.The clear message it contains and the insight that it revealsprovides for humankind such an ingenious historical forecast. Wechose to place it, in all its glory, at the prologue and state thatthe text, real or not real, is one of the most powerful andstraightforward statements ever written about Adolf Hitler.

With our introduction of the Ludendorfftelegram, not much more has to be said of Hitlers character.Millions of words have been written about Hitler, as Im sure manymillions more will be written. There are more than thirty-twothousand books with his name in the title. Much more important isthe effect his action had on Klaras family, millions of otherfamilies like hers, and the rest of the world. Klara and her familyexperienced the beginning of Hitlers rise to power in Germany allthe way through the crushing end of World War II in Europe on May4, 1945.

January 30, 1933, the day Hitler wasappointed chancellor of Germany, and what followed in an eight-yearspan, altered the world so radically that Germany and the world arestill recovering. World War II was the deadliest military conflictin history. This widespread war, which so thoroughly engulfed theplanet, involved sixty-one countries. The line between civiliansand military became increasingly blurred, and not a single personwas unaffected. Hitlers war machine would force an enormous globalcalling of all human, economic, industrial, and scientificresources to defeat his empire. World War II is estimated to havecaused fifty to seventy million deaths, all of which are theresponsibility of one man: Adolf Hitler.

Its been determined by some that the averageperson meets approximately sixty to one hundred thousand people inhis or her lifetime. Although there are several possible ways ofcalculating this number, it could be more, or it could be less. Themajority of these meetings are brief, customary name exchanges.Usually they include a hello, a short, quick handshake, and afarewell. Personality, status, profession, and geographicallocation all play a huge role in how many people the average personmeets in a typical life-span. Only a very small percentage of thoseinteractions result in any real, consequential long-termrelationships. No matter how brief, what all encounters do provideare opportunity. People meeting people makes the world goround.

Nowhere in modern history has any one man hadmore of a unique opportunity to meet thousands and thousands ofpeople face-to-face on a daily basis, do his duty, be humane, savelives, and apply the wisdom and values of the Hippocratic oath thanDr. Josef Mengele. Despite this, Josef Mengele was recruited toimplement Hitlers fanatical genocidal policies against Jews andother races at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Given authority as an SSrepresentative, Mengele abandoned his sworn humanitarian oath as adoctor. He enthusiastically chose to replace good with evil.Extremely ambitious, Mengele rededicated his allegiance to Hitlerby joining the SS and taking the sacred oath, pledging hisobedience to Adolf Hitler.

All eyewitness accounts state that he wasunquestionably not an average man. His smile and outstretched armsappeared angel-like as he stood wearing his lab coat that glowed inthe light. Known as the Angel of Death, Mengele conducted businessat Auschwitz like a wolf in sheeps clothing as he personally metand sent more than four hundred thousand people to theirdeaths.

Mengele, a collaborator in Hitlers massivewar crimes, exploited his humanitarian obligation. Mengele andHitler left in their wake a legacy so morally corrupt that theiractions still shatter the heart some sixty years later. Mengelemisrepresented a unique opportunity to serve. Instead, he attemptedto completely wipe out a whole segment of society: the Jews.

Klaras story is a love story. Its essentialthat you travel her road. Under Nazi tyranny with millions of otherpeople, this brave young girl takes a miraculous journey from theedge of death at Auschwitz-Birkenau to a new life after the war. Atseventeen years old, Klara Iutkovits questions life, surrenders todeath, and challenges the human spirit every step of her way. Noway of knowing then that her guiltless encounters with the creatureDr. Josef Mengele would make her an eternal part of the notoriousNazi legend, Klaras story defies the odds as it is a battle toexplain the unexplainable.