War Crimes Trials - Vol. II The Belsen Trial. 'The Trial of Josef Kramer and Forty Four Others'

Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Lozowski, Isak)
 

(59) DEPOSITION OF ISAK LOZOWSKI (Pole, aged 23)

3. I identify No. 8 on photograph Z/4/3 as a man whom I knew by the name of Erich and who was Lagerältester in No. 1 Camp at Belsen. I have now been told that his full name is Erich Zoddel. I frequently saw this man Zoddel beat other prisoners. Zoddel always carried a wooden stick, fixed on the end of which was a piece of iron piping, and Zoddel beat prisoners on the head and other parts of the body. As Lagerältester he worked as an assistant to the S.S., giving orders for working parties, etc.

4. One day about the middle or end of March, 1945, I saw Zoddel kill another prisoner. At 7 a.m. in the morning in question I was with a working party waiting to move off to work. There was another working party standing near by. In this working party there was a very sick man, a Polish Jew, whose name I do not know. This sick man spoke to the Kapo and said that he was too sick to go to work. I heard the Kapo tell him to go to an Appell place, and the sick man walked off towards the Appell place, which was behind Block 2. Zoddel was walking in the opposite direction and when he reached the sick man I saw Zoddel strike him heavily across the head with the metal end of the stick which he always carried. There was no apparent reason for this as no word was spoken between them. I was only about five or six metres away when this happened.

 
Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Lozowski, Isak)