And that was how it all started.
For their first date, Agustí invited Yazd to the movies. "We started meeting more often. Neither of us had a lot of money, but truth be told, we didn't spend a lot either.
Our long walks and conversations took the place of what we lacked. Yazd mattered more to me every day.
Even when I told her about my past in the SS, she listened with an open heart and full of forgiveness. Our relationship only grew stronger," says Agustí, "Soon there were ties between us that could no longer be easily broken."
"Agustí was 24 years old and I was 27 years old when we were really in love," recalls Yazd. "We needed each other. He was alone and I was alone but we had each other."
Nothing could separate them, not even their war traumas. They got married on March 2, 1947.
Yazd later realized that she had nightmares about what she suffered in the holocaust and Agustí also had them but he always told his wife that they had to move on.
Yazd remembered many of the holocaust horrific memories and decided to write in her diary about Bergen Belsen.
She wrote:
“This concentration camp was operated from 1944 until April 14, 1945 when it was liberated by British troops from the 11th Armored Division. Weeks before the liberation Anne Frank died, known for her memoirs together with her sister Margot Frank, who died a day before Anne.
Since 1944 it was used to imprison Jews deported from German-occupied countries in the west in transit to the so-called final settlement camps in Poland. Between the opening of the camp and the spring of 1942, eighteen thousand inmates died.
And I never forgot the cold hunger and having to relieve myself in a horrible place full of rotten
smell and flies.”
The place of Bergen Belsen was a type of camp that served as a meeting point. The camp started from 1943 to 1945.
And it had the number of dead 70,000 and had 2 subcamps
Yazd never forgot the worst moments of her life when she was in that place but at least she met the love of her life .
Yazd wrote something about the holocaust in her notebook so that the pain in her would heal soon .
She remembered the episodes of the holocaust and some of the sufferings or tortures were:
1: Blood Coagulation: This punishment consisted of studying of blood coagulation in the hope of being able to stop bleeding in the battlefield. For this purpose, they could shoot and even amputate people's limbs without any anesthesia.
2.- Sulfamide: To test the efficacy of sulfa, for this prisoners had to injure their legs with crystals and sand to simulate the scenario of a battle wound. Even though the
conclusions helped advance the world of medicine, prisoners suffered great pain and some ended up dead.
3.- Hypothermia: Sigmund Rascher , in charge of many of these terrible experiments, wanted to discover how long it took a person to die as a result of hypothermia. For this purpose, the victims were placed in cold bathtubs outdoors, which led to the death of the majority. Those who didn’t die were subjected to other experiments and try to be revived.
4.- Bombs: Between 1943 and 1944 experiments were carried out in the Buchenwald concentration camp to test the effectiveness of drugs on wounds resulting from bombs and burns. Prisoners were thoroughly burned to test them.
5.- Sea water: The intention was to know if the sea water was suitable for human consumption and for this, the subjects were only allowed to drink this salt water for days, which led them to suffer from hallucinations, diarrhea, madness and even death.
6.- Poisons: During the Holocaust, Buchenwald prisoners were given poison to see how they reacted and how long it took to react. Some died immediately and others were simply killed so that autopsies could be performed and the results could be seen.
7.- Sterilization: For this experiment, the prisoners underwent different types of sterilization, in order to find out which was faster and cheaper.
8.- Regeneration: For more than a year, the regeneration of bones, tissues and nerves was studied through experiments in Ravensbruck . Part of the interventions consisted of cutting whole pieces of nerves from the inmates' legs to see how they would regenerate.
9.- Fever: In the Holocaust, for 4 years the effect of fever was tested on many prisoners. 75% of the subjects received the vaccines after they had been injected with the virus and as a result 90% of them died.
10.- Twin experiments: The twins were other victims of the Nazis. Blood was drawn from them every day, compared and measured often, trying to find out the differences. If one of them died, the other was killed for post-mortem study.
Approximately six million Jews were murdered in the Nazi regime, under the command of Adolf Hitler and his collaborators. The killings took place throughout the city and the German-occupied territories, which stretched across most of the Europe. For this, the methods used were suffocation by poison gas, shooting, hanging , forced labor, starvation, scientific experiments, medical torture, and beatings.
This trial was known as the "Trial of Josef Kramer and 44 Other Defendants" started at the Lüneburg Court , on September 17, 1945, by the British Court of Justice against 45 former Nazi SS men, women and kapos ( prisoners with the rank of guards) of the concentration camps of Bergen- Belsen and Auschwitz . The trial lasted until November 17, 1945.
The defendants faced charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in these two German concentration camps through their direct involvement in torture and mass murder against the camp's prisoners.
All the defendants except Starotska were accused of having committed these crimes at Bergen- Belsen ; Starotska , Josef Kramer , Fritz Klein, Peter Weingartner , Kraft , Franz Hoessler , Juana Bormann , Elisabeth Völkenrath , Herta Ehlert , Gura, Irma Grese , Hertha Bothe , Lobauer and Schreirer were also accused of having committed atrocities in the Auschwitz concentration camp .