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

Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Schifferman, Sala)
 

(77) DEPOSITION OF SALA SCHIFFERMAN (Pole, aged 18)

2. I recognise No. 5 on photograph 25 as an S.S. woman at Belsen. I have now been told that her name is Herta Bothe. At Belsen I worked in Kitchen No. 4 in the women’s camp. One day in January or February, 1945, a girl friend of mine, a Hungarian whom I knew by the name of Eva, aged 18 years, came up to the kitchen to eat some turnip peelings which were in a heap outside the kitchen. This girl lived in the same block as me, which was Block 203. As she was taking the peelings Bothe came up from a nearby working site. She ordered one of the girls from the kitchen to bring a big piece of wood and she then started to beat Eva with it. After the first few strokes the girl fell. I and other girls in the kitchen shouted to Bothe that Eva was too weak to stand the beating. Bothe retorted, "I will beat her to death." Bothe then beat the girl on the head and all over the body. After about ten minutes she left off and Eva lay very still, bleeding profusely from the head. Bothe then ordered me and other girls to take the body to a room in a block next to the hospital where all the corpses were put. The girl was definitely killed by the beating. An internee whom I believe to be a woman doctor examined the body and said the girl was dead. I do not know the doctor’s name. I have not seen her since the British arrived.
 
Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Schifferman, Sala)