Her luck was that her labor-worthiness as a seamstress saved her from Auschwitz, a main extermination center, where her parents and other family members died.
It was one of the most notorious extermination centers.
(It was not yet known that the camps would soon be extermination centers.)
So far the center has documented 19,440 mass graves and 167 extermination centers.
In October 1941, Lange toured the area looking for a suitable site for an extermination centre, and finally chose Chełmno (Kulmhof) because of the estate.
Trabzon was a major Armenian extermination center during the Armenian Genocide, as well as a location of subsequent trials.
During the War, it functioned as an extermination centre for the Third Reich Action T4 program.
The operation of the gas tap was therefore the job of the gas doctors in the extermination centres.
Trains filled with munitions and living cargo that was to be taken to extermination centers.