Well, medical experts will tell you that anyone dying of zyclon B poisoning experiences convulsions and does not scream. Kitty Hart also heard the screams of dying inmates. It seemed as if blood was coming out, as indeed it was.
Smoke and flames poured out of all the chimneys which surrounded our little camp. As evening came, the whole sky was red, as if lit up. The black smoke became thicker and darker and choking, bringing with it a most perculiar smell, that of burning bodies, a smell of singeing chicken would be comparable, but this stench of burnt fat and hair was unbearable. Pages 86-87: “Smoke was beginning to billow out of the tall chimneys and soon sharp flames shot up 6 feet into the sky. At the same time the most terrifying screams echoed through the air, the desperate cries of suffocating people. In a flash he was down and, throwing the ladder on the lawn, ran away as if chased by a ghost. Holding the opening with one hand, he pulled a bag out of his pocket, and quickly threw the contents, a white powder inside, shutting the opening immediately. At the top he pulled on a gas mask and gloves. A figure in SS uniform climbed up briskly. On the outside of the low building a ladder had been placed which reached up to a small opening. I was actually witnessing with my very own eyes a murder, not of one person, but of hundreds of people who had been led, mostly unsuspecting into a large hall. In this book Kitty gives another eyewitness version of the gassings at Auschwitz-Birkenau on pages 85-86: “ I stood hypnotised. Alexander McClelland (former prisoner of concentration camp):
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