Miklós Nyiszli, the organ harvester of the Auschwitz extermination

 

Miklós Nyiszli, the organ harvester of the Auschwitz extermination camp, medical experiment block. Born in 1901 in the west foot plains of the Carpathian mountain range. Known before world war one as Austria-Hungary and after world war one as Romania. Twenty-eight years old he received his medical degree for the specialization of forensic pathology. He practiced medical science for twelve years before he arrives to Auschwitz and begins his testimony, forty-years old. Exactly like the other doctors of the medical blocks of the extermination camps this doctor has a decade of experience and scientific study in his field of biology. Each of the doctors in the medical experiment blocks were well known for particular research which they developed, documented, published through their practices.

 In 1942 the notorious Rudolf Hoess has completed the core of Auschwitz extermination camp for mass efficiency in mass extermination and cremation. Hitler’s generals are sending peak numbers of persons back from the front lines as they capture city after city toward Russia. Prisoners of war are taken by the millions to the train platform which stops in between crematorium one and crematorium two. Each crematorium has a gas chamber. 2,000 persons can fit into the two bigger gas chambers. Gas chamber three, four, five are half the size. Trains come here in never ending waves whose volume depends on activity of the German battlefront. Miklos lives in crematorium one where the head of all medical experiments has an office. From day one Miklos is presented to this room in crematorium one. There is a well furnished dissecting table and surgery. Every morning Doctor Mengele goes out to the train platform to select from the columns of human beings, not only civilians, there were more than one million Russian prisoners of war brought here from the battlefronts. Sometimes Miklos goes out to stand with Doctor Mengele and look at the selections. If you are sent to the right you live in the camp. If you are sent to the left you go into the crematoriums. All twins are sent to the medical block barracks for experimentation. Men and women with selected genetic or physical characteristics will be sent to medical experimentation blocks by the tens of thousands. There were three main activity of medical experimentations. Miklos job was to harvest the organs for the experiments and sending thousands, thousands of organs in packages back to the Berlin laboratories. The three main experiments are; harvesting sex organs to get hormone isolates for injecting into other humans for medical research and pathology study. Harvesting the internal organs of the humans injected with the hormone isolates and sending organs to Berlin for pathology. Opening the flesh of the legs and growing live bacteria on the muscle tissue of living women for research development of tissue regeneration. There were a variety of strains of bacteria grown live on a big volume of living persons for experimentation.

 

Every day thousands of persons were directed to walk to the right side of the train platform. They went into the work camps and medical blocks. Every day ten and twenty thousand were directed to go to the left side into the Crematoriums. The Crematorium one was like the others with the exception that in crematorium one, Doctor Miklos is the only person known to have survived. His sleeping quarters were on the south wing, his walls were covered with shelving containing jars of preserved human organs. One thousand living beings entered crematorium one at the north wing, the undressing room. They were taken naked down the hall into the gas chamber. When the gas was thrown down the persons screamed. There was an orchestra outside that played for the fifteen minutes that it took for the persons to die from Zyklon b exposure. Then the bodies were disentangled and dragged further down the hall to the rows of ovens outside Milkos bedroom door. In 1944 the Russians advance and the Germans retreat taking all the prisoners with them and continuing to directs trains trains trains full of human beings toward Dachau, Germany and satellite concentration camps.  Killing as many prisoners as possible to make the masses more manageable to control. Miklos marched out of Auschwitz the day of its total evacuation. Twenty Waffen-SS guards with rifles lead one-thousand starving prisoners set by set, column after column in a death march of fifty thousand total of persons from Auschwitz. Who could not dare to attempt to escape this walking column because there was not a soul in all of Germany who would take mercy on them and hide them to save their life. They walked to the next concentration camp and arrived in decimated numbers of persons because conditions of travel killed many thousands. Miklos continues to retreat with the German army, Waffen-SS, and the masses of concentration camp prisoners as the Russians continue to advance in the downfall of Germany. His testimony ends at the surrender of the concentration camp Mauthausen on a mountain top of the Alps. He died mysteriously ten years later at his home in Romania.

Written October 4, 2025