The Evidence Room
Reproductions of a gas-tight hatch, ?a door with a protected peephole, and a column for lowering gas pellets present architectural evidence for the killing chambers ?at Auschwitz.
February 23, 2016
Today I touched the gas column?a reproduction of the device that inserted Zyklon B into the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
As a Holocaust survivor I felt the cold hand ?of history on my spine. I knew a good deal about the Auschwitz-Birkenau murder factory, but the gas column really shocked me. Because of what ?I had read about people thinking they were going into a shower room, I had always imagined the gas being dispersed by sprinklers. Touching that construction had a profound effect on me??a new visceral recognition, all these years later.
The gas column was in the workshop at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture where a team of professors and students were preparing a remarkable exhibition that has since made its way to the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opened in May.
The exhibition creates a visual and tactile impression of the forensic architectural evidence presented by expert defense witness Professor Robert Jan van Pelt at the 2000 trial ?in London for Holocaust denier David Irving?s suit against historian Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel. The truth of the Holocaust became the issue in contention.
A major element of the display is a reconstruction of the steel mesh gas column through which Zyklon B gas pellets were lowered into the gas chambe...
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