Summary of Patricia Posner's The Pharmacist of Auschwitz

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#1 In the spring of 1944, the Nazi high temple of industrial-scale genocide, Auschwitz, was operating at full capacity. The Berners and eighty of their Jewish neighbors from Hungarian-controlled Transylvania got there just before sunrise after a tortuous three-day journey packed inside a cattle car.

#2 Three others who were at the selection ramp that day recognized Capesius. Dr. Gisela Böhm, a pediatrician, and her nineteen-year-old daughter, Ella, had arrived on the same train. Ella had given Berner’s twins comfort during the journey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822535824

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Insights on Patricia Posner's The Pharmacist of Auschwitz

Contents

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In the spring of 1944, the Nazi high temple of industrial-scale genocide, Auschwitz, was operating at full capacity. The Berners and eighty of their Jewish neighbors from Hungarian-controlled Transylvania got there just before sunrise after a tortuous three-day journey packed inside a cattle car.

#2

Three others who were at the selection ramp that day recognized Capesius. Dr. Gisela Böhm, a pediatrician, and her nineteen-year-old daughter, Ella, had arrived on the same train. Ella had given Berner’s twins comfort during the journey.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The answer to Ella’s question is not simple. To understand what a pharmacist like Capesius was doing at Auschwitz, it is important to know how the camp came to exist as a profit center for medical experimentation, slave labor, and extermination.

#2

The marriage between Farben and the Nazis was troubled from the start because many of Farben’s best scientists were Jewish. Nazi literature and commentators denigrated Farben as an instrument of international finance capital, code words for the Nazi