Auschwitz crematoria: building plans and forensic research
Yes, dear Alexander, I was the one who, by an innocent ruse, in 1975 obtained from Jan Machalek, an official of the Auschwitz Museum, the admission that, at Auschwitz-I, Krema I had been “rekonstruiert” (rebuilt) after the war. I immediately said to him: “So then, you [meaning the Museum’s directors] have blueprints”. He replied, in a pathetic tone, “Ja” (up to then, at every turn, he had said “Jawohl”). I asked him: “Where are they?” He replied saying I should see Tadeusz Iwaszko, director of the Archives. But the next day I had to return to France. In March 1976 I was back at Auschwitz.
