Dora was born in Warsaw (Poland) in 1932. Her family ran away to Vilna (Lithuania), because Germans had invaded Poland. She was only seven years old. But, years later, Germans also occupied Vilna and Dora’s father was shot. The rest of the family was sent to the Vilna guetto. Dora, her sister and her mother were moved to the Kaiserwald camp in Latvia and then to the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig (Poland). Her mother and sister died in Stutthof. Dora was executed just before liberation, but she survived.

c) The freezing experiments consisted of forcing the people to remain in a tank of ice water for periods up to three hours. Extreme rigor developed in a short time. Many victims died in the course of these experiments. The ones who survived, were severely chilled. Then, they tried to re-heat them by several means:

-Sun Lamps: frozen victims were placed under sun lamps that were so hot they would burn the victim.
-Internal Irrigation: extremely hot water was irrigated to the stomach, bladder, and intestines.
-Hot Bath: victims were placed in warm water that would slowly be heated. This was the most successful method when it was performed slowly.

In other experiments, the people were kept naked outdoors for many hours at temperatures below freezing. These victims shouted with pain as their bodies froze.

d) I think it was an extremely cruel act. We have to learn about this fact and not to repeat it again in history. This was a really inhuman abuse. Nazis raped girls and pregnant Jewish and non-Jewish women and they submitted women to physical and psychological tortures, which was completely unethical.

It was an absolutely immoral act, because Nazis could treat women as Nazis themselves would have liked to be treated and they did not do it. They didn’t keep the ethical established rules.