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

Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Dolinski, Karl)
 

(24) DEPOSITION OF KARL DOLINSKI (Pole, aged 54)

2. I can recognise Ladislaw Gura as No. 1 on photograph 7. This man was one of the S.S. men in the camp at Belsen whilst I was there. I was employed at Belsen as an engineer. One day at he end of March, 1945, I was given orders to run off the water supply. The main tap is next to a draining ditch. Whilst I was turning off the water I heard Gura give orders to a man to do some repair work to the ditch. The man did not obey immediately, so Gura kicked him into the ditch in which the water was about 5 ft. deep. I pulled the man, who was an acquaintance of mine, out of the ditch. Whereupon Gura beat the victim on the head with a spade and, when he fell down, kicked him. I then moved away about 30 yards from where I saw the man taken away to the sick block by two other prisoners. Two days later I went to see how the man was progressing, but found he was dead. It is my opinion that his death was attributable to the ill-treatment received from Gura. I do not know the name of the victim - we prisoners seldom knew the names of other prisoners.

 
Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Dolinski, Karl)