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What Was the Selection Process?

Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem187 views • 7 likes • 1 comments1 month ago • 1:30 min

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"Men to the left! Women to the right!" Eight simple words that signaled the end of a family. For 15-year-old Elie Wiesel, this was the moment he was torn from his mother and sister forever. This was the "Selection"—a brutal, split-second decision made by SS doctors on the ramps of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Watch the full reel to understand the devastating reality of the first moments at Nazi concentration and extermination camps.

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