Czech, Danuta

Danuta Czech s Kalendarium, a work of post-war Polish-Communist propaganda, resembles a sort of catalogue of chronological listing of actual and invented individual events, without any attempt to draw up a theoretically definitive and critical view of the existing material on the history of the camp.89... 

The results could only be compiled if one knew the number of persons disinfested by means of the installation. These numbers have thus far remained unclear. Although Danuta Czech claims in her book89 that such documents on large time periods are available in the Auschwitz archive, we have so far been unable to examine them. As of the present writing, it is still impossible to make a reliable statement as to whether... 

Correct conclusion Pressac reproduced a photo of crematorium II showing square objects located on the roof of morgue 1 (the fourth object obviously lies behind the cellar).243 The same photograph also appears in Danuta Czech s book.244 It was taken in early February 1943, see Fig. 36, the decisive detail of which being magnified in Fig. 37. If these objects are really Zyklon B introduction holes, as Pressac believes, then one must assume that the objects are ... 

Danuta Czech, Kalendarium der Ereignisse im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau 1939-1945, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbekbei Hamburg, 1989... 

Often it is considered sufficient to cite portions of documents out of their proper context, or arbitrarily select a few documents from many others of relevance. The well-known book by Daniel J. Goldhagen represents in effect the climax of this approach,138 and it has been massively criticized for this even from the establishment side. However, Goldhagen s work is merely the logical, radical conclusion of this general tendency to selectively interpret source materials. Consequently, the criticism directed at Goldhagen generally reflects poorly on his establishment critics themselves.139 Two prominent examples for such poor historiography are the well-known authors Jean-Claude Pres-sac and Danuta Czech. Both profess to reconstruct the history of Auschwitz (or Ausch-witz-Birkenau) on the basis of documents and, in the case of Danuta Czech, also of eyewitness testimony. 

SS-judge Konrad Morgen, ace. to Danuta Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle, 1939-1945, Henry Holt, New York, 1990, p. 818. 

P. Broad, Erinnerungen , in J. Bezwinska, Danuta Czech, Auschwitz in den Augen der SS, 3rd ed., Krajowa Agencja Wydawnictwa, Katowice 1981, pp. 165f. Broad makes the anachronistic claim that the mass graves were opened after the discovery of the graves of Katyn (Feb. 1943). 

According to Danuta Czech s Auschwitz Chronicle, 1939-1945, incineration of exhumed bodies began on September 21,213 which seems quite credible, and ended in November. It is not known how these bodies were burned, but most definitely not in burning pits. Mass graves were almost certainly located to the southwest of the temporary earth basin , about 650 ft. west of what was to become Sector BUI of Birkenau, since the air photos from 1944 - specifically those from May 31 - show traces of four huge, parallel trenches in that area. (See the chapter by J. C. Ball, this volume.)... 

Jadwiga Bezwinska, Danuta Czech, Auschwitz in den Augen der SS, 3rd ed., Krajowa Agencja Wydawnictwa, Katowice 1981... 

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