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"After having delivered the luggage were we commanded up into the trucks. The Jewish camp doctor who was with us had naturally objections to being sent off, because he meant he had the right to special care, but the SS-men didn’t listen and pushed him towards the last truck. Then he went over to SS Untersturmführer Scheid and protested against that he, who had saved German officers lives, wasn’t showed the respect he deserved. Scheid however didn’t how this had anything to do with him. –Schnauze halten!, -Shot up! He barked and pointed towards the truck. –Walk or die! When the doctor started on a new argument, Schein pulled his gun and shot him twice. The doctor fell to the ground. He had been so certain that the Wehrmachts-officers would take his side and protect him against all dangers, but the SS hadn’t appreciated his work. Now he was only a dead Jew."
"While I was out getting materials, I saw a SS-officer and a civilian woman walking along side of the blown down barracks. The SS-man was pointing and waving his arms while he was discussing with the woman. They were to far away for me to hear anything, but it was clear that they were talking about the damages the storm had made. Suddenly the woman stopped, but the SS-man pushed her forward. She stopped again, and this time she was pushed so hard she almost fell. At the same time the SS-man pulled out his gun and shouted: -Na, los!, -Walk now! The woman stayed put. Then the SS-man took two steps backwards and shot her. The woman staggered and then fell forwards. Later i got to know that the woman was a Jewish building-architect who got punished because the foundation wall wasn’t solid enough so the barracks had come together."
"Fortell hva som skjedde med oss", Szajnfeld, Mendel. Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1993.
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"… On the second day I asked a kapo, where is my mother? […] She pointed up, and said, there is your mother, and don’t ask me this ever again. I didn’t understand. I mean, what is there is your mother, and pointing up to the smoke? It was terribly, terribly frightening …"
Irene Zisblatt to 'Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation' in the book "The Last Days", Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999, p. 90
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"And I saw the people I had seen fifteen minutes earlier – I saw them all dead, standing up with their children, all black and blue. I just couldn’t work out what was going on. There was a Polish guy there and I asked him ’Where is God?’ and he replied ’God is where you have your strength." "
Dario Gabbai to 'Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation' in the book "The Last Days", Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999, pp. 157-159
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