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

Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Neumann, Maria)
 

(67) DEPOSITION OF MARIA NEUMANN (Pole, aged 23)

2. I identify Gertrud Sauer, No. 5 on photograph 19, as an S.S. woman who was at Belsen Camp. Some time in March, 1945, I witnessed the following incident outside No. 1 Kitchen of Belsen Camp. I saw Sauer beat a man, whose name I do not know, about the head and body with a stick. The reason for the beating was that the man had taken a meatless bone from the swill-tub outside the kitchen. The man received very severe injuries to the head and was afterwards picked up by Sauer and thrown into a ditch. I am a fully trained nurse and I hold a diploma for this. It is my opinion that the man must have died from the severe injuries he received. I also received a beating from Sauer because I was watching the above incident.

3. I identify Karl Flrazich [Francioh], No. 5 on photograph 1, as an S.S. man who was at Belsen Camp. In March, 1945, I saw Francioh shoot a woman outside No. 1 Kitchen at Belsen Camp. I can give no reason for this shooting, but there were many prisoners outside the kitchen when it occurred. I gave first aid to this woman, who was shot through the chest and lung (left side), by plugging the wound and giving an injection to keep the heart beating. The woman died in my arms after about 30 minutes. I got the injection from Dr. Klein at the German medical store. I was not asked the reason for wanting this as Dr. Klein knew that I was a trained nurse. I saw the body later removed to the crematorium.

 
Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Neumann, Maria)