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

Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Rormann, Luba)
 

(72) DEPOSITION OF LUBA RORMANN (Pole, aged 24)

2. I recognise No. 30 on photograph Z/4/5 as the photograph of a woman I knew as Roth, the Stubenälteste of Block 199. I now know that her name is Johanne Roth. I was working in Cookhouse No. 1 and had to parade for work outside the block in which Roth was in charge. One day in March, 1945, a Polish girl named Hoffman, who used to work in the cookhouse, was suffering from diarrhoea. When we were all lined up for our food about midday Hoffman wanted to go to the lavatory. She asked Roth, but Roth commenced to beat her with a wooden stick and she excreted there, and then fell down unconscious. I protested to Roth and she beat me as well. My friend Hoffman was then taken to bed and I heard later that she had died.

3. I have frequently seen Roth beat prisoners for no reason at all.

 
Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Rormann, Luba)