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| Major Smallwood
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read out and
translated to her in my presence, and if she agreed, she signed it.
What sort of an oath did you administer? — The ordinary witness's
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THE PROSECUTION (continued) |
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ILONA STEIN,
sworn, examined by Colonel BACKHOUSE — I am a Jewess from Gyongyos
in Hungary and am 21 years of age. On 8th June, 1944, I was sent to Birkenau,
Auschwitz, where I stayed until transferred to Bergen-Belsen on 1st January,
1945.
(Witness gave details of alleged ill-treatment and shootings in
connection with several of the accused.)
Cross-examined by Major
WINWOOD — How many selections did you see while you were actually engaged
in working in the cookhouse in Auschwitz? — At the end of August and
September there were so many that I can hardly remember. Sometimes there were
two or three in one single day.
Do you swear that you saw this man
(indicating No. 3, Weingartner) in the cookhouse in Belsen? — I might have
mistaken him. I believe now I have seen him in Auschwitz in a Kommando called
Wiesel. I thought that man was very much like the man who was working in No. 2
Kitchen in Belsen, No. 16 (Francioh). I know No. 3 from Belsen because he
helped during the roll-call with the count. If he is not the man I saw in the
kitchen then the accusations I made do not concern him at all.
Cross-examined by Major CRANFIELD — With regard to the
incident you described of a woman being shot when trying to escape from a
selection parade in Auschwitz, was she a Hungarian? — Yes.
You
described an incident when Grese arrived on a bicycle and beat another woman.
Did she beat her with her belt? — I do not know exactly what was in her
hands, but I did see that she had something in them. I do remember, however,
that I have seen Grese taking off her belt and beating prisoners with it.
Was the body taken away on a stretcher, by hand or was it taken away by
something on wheels? — When somebody died, which happened in very many
cases, he was simply put into a blanket and dragged away.
Have you ever
been beaten by Grese yourself? — No, not in the kitchen where I was
working, but once when I was out on a working party Grese saw me talking to
somebody through the barbed wire and she immediately started beating me.
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