โDaddy was visibly Jewish.โ
That is what Albert Itzkowitzโs daughter said through tears.
Albert was 75.
He owned a kosher bakery in Queens.
He served as a rabbi at a nursing home.
He volunteered as an EMT.
He was a grandfather.
On May 18, he went to Kissena Park, where he used to spend quiet time on his lunch break.
He brought a chair and a crossword puzzle.
He was found shot in the neck and back.
Murdered.
Now his children are asking anyone who saw something to come forward.
More than a month later, there is still no arrest.
There is now a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
Somebody knows something.
Say his name.
Albert Itzkowitz.
Do not let his family demand justice alone.
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ & ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐จ ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐โ๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐งต
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During WW11, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben, which included the Bayer division, turned the horrors of Auschwitz into a site not only of industrial slave labour but also of systematic medical experimentation.
While IG Farbenโs synthetic rubber factory at Auschwitz III-Monowitz consumed the lives of thousands of prisoners through brutal working conditions, Bayer itself played a direct role in testing pharmaceuticals on unwilling human subjects.
These crimes, documented in postwar trials & historical records, highlight the extent to which corporate interests intersected with the Nazi regimeโs genocidal machinery.
IG Farben, formed in 1925 from the merger of Bayer with BASF, Hoechst & other firms, became one of the Third Reichโs most powerful industrial supporters. In 1941, the conglomerate began constructing a vast chemical plant near the Auschwitz concentration camp complex to produce Buna, a synthetic rubber essential to the German war effort.
To meet labour demands, IG Farben established its own sub-camp, known as Buna-Monowitz or Auschwitz III, which drew on prisoners from the main Auschwitz camp. By 1943, nearly half of IG Farbenโs workforce consisted of forced labourers, including some 30,000 prisoners from Auschwitz. Conditions were lethal: malnutrition, exhaustion & selections for the gas chambers claimed thousands of lives.
Parallel to this industrial exploitation ran a programme of medical testing. Bayer, operating within IG Farben, actively sought to develop & trial new drugs without the ethical constraints that bound civilian research. A senior Bayer official oversaw operations at the Monowitz factory, while experiments took place primarily in Block 20 of the womenโs hospital in Birkenau (Auschwitz II). There, prisoners โ often deliberately infected with diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria or typhus โ were used to test Bayer pharmaceuticals, including sulfonamide drugs like Rutenol.
Central to these trials was Dr Helmuth Vetter, an SS-Hauptsturmfรผhrer who served as both an Auschwitz camp physician & a long-term Bayer employee. Bayer paid Vetter a retainer to conduct tests on inmates at Auschwitz, as well as at Dachau, Gusen and Mauthausen.
Prisoners were infected with pathogens & then administered experimental drugs to assess their efficacy. Vetterโs work formed part of a broader pattern in which Auschwitz physicians, including Eduard Wirths & Friedrich Entress, collaborated in these lethal trials. Many subjects died from the infections, the drugs or subsequent complications. Vetter was convicted of war crimes by an American military tribunal in the 1947 Mauthausen trial & executed at Landsberg Prison in February 1949.
Survivors of Mengeleโs notorious twin experiments at Auschwitz have also linked Bayer to the broader programme of chemical and biological testing. Eva Mozes Kor, one of the few surviving โMengele twinsโ, filed a class-action lawsuit in 1999 saying Bayer supplied toxic chemicals & germs used in experiments on prisoners, including those deliberately infected to test drug efficacy. Kor, who endured repeated injections of unknown substances as a child, stated:
โ๐โ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ค๐๐๐ก ๐ก๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐. ๐โ๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐โ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ฆ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ . ๐ด๐๐ก๐๐ 54 ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ , ๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐ต๐๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ฆ ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ , tโ๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ฆ ๐ โ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ก๐ข๐ก๐๐๐, ๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐กโ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐ ๐คโ๐๐ก ๐กโ๐๐ฆ โ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐กโ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐กโ๐๐ โ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐.โ
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