Auschwitz survivor is 81 years and completed his doctorate
Eliezer Schwartz did his thesis on the origin of the concentration camps.
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/07/16/sociedad/s-01959313.htm
By: Demian Doyle Middle
century. That time had passed since that Eliezer had left behind the horror. But the years as a prisoner in Auschwitz had been in a corner of his memory. Were his grandchildren who insisted to convince translate their experiences into a document that would transcend his life. So Schmartz Eliezer decided to close the circle. His memories, true first-person historical records, became a theory of forced labor in Nazi concentration camps and their relation to industrial development. Then his own life story fueled the argument that allowed him, at age 81, gaining a doctorate in urban planning at the University of Haifa, north of Israel.
In defining his own life, Schwartz does not hesitate to ensure that "never had a linear nor logical." And it's true. With only 16 years old fell to the Nazi army and was taken to Auschwitz. Then spent a year going from one camp to another. His release came along with the end of World War II. "I decided to return to my village in Hungary, but as any member of my family had gone, I went to Israel," says Schwartz.
its course by the Nazi concentration camps allowed him to learn about its operation. And although he admits he tried to distance himself emotionally from his personal history, his experiences gave added value to its argument. "I worked on the adaptation of underground mines to industries. I was there. I know how the whole process was handled because my familiarity with the subject is first hand. That is a source of information that no other historian has access" he explains.
spent nearly 57 years until Eliezer decided to do something with all this wealth of experience and raised a question that had always haunted his mind: how linked the Auschwitz concentration camp with the installation of an industrial park large scale to three miles away.
The thesis, entitled "Forced Laborers in the Third Reich ", states that the origin of the camps is directly related to the installation of new industrial centers. And this project of industrialization of Nazi slave labor demanded.
According to the work of Schwartz, the amount of Auschwitz prisoners grew exponentially after 1940 and this same process is reflected in the internal books of the factory: the need for more and more workers. In Schwartz's words, "This project was a critical contribution to the growth in capacity Auschwitz and its transformation into a reservoir of labor for Nazi industry and later a center of extermination. "
The final question raised by Schwartz's why so many workers were needed slaves. The answer lies in an unprofessional management and lack of organizational capacity of the Germans. "However, this is understandable, considering that it was a German industrial complex," Schwartz challenges. "To understand how it is that people considered as meticulous and precise work can do so disorganized, they have to read the study," concluded the man who at 81 could finally remove the ghosts from his memory.
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