Story 22 of 70 Stories of Auschwitz: Louis Micheels
USC Shoah Foundation
USC Shoah Foundation
Los Angeles, United States
Louis Micheels remembers the six months he assisted several doctors as a nurse in the Tuberculosis ward at Auschwitz. He talks about how the S.S. doctor would make indiscriminate patient selections for the gas chamber. Additionally he retells a story told to him by another prison doctor about being forced to kill his own father.
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- Title: Story 22 of 70 Stories of Auschwitz: Louis Micheels
- Creator: USC Shoah Foundation
- Location: Westport, CT, U.S.A.
- USC Shoah Reference ID: 36554
- Topic: Assistant nurse to doctor
- Languages: English
- Experience: Jewish Survivor
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