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

Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Winter, Miriam)
 

(94) DEPOSITION OF MIRIAM WINTER (Pole, aged 23)

2. I identify No. 21 on photograph Z/4/7 as an S.S. chief of No. 1 Kitchen at Belsen. I have now been told that his name is Erich Basch [Barsch]. A few days before the English [British] arrived at the camp I was working in the vicinity of No. 1 Kitchen. I saw this man Basch [Barsch] walk towards girl who was standing near a pile of turnips. When Basch [Barsch] was about three metres from the girl, he fired two or three shots at her from a pistol he was carrying in his hand. I saw the girl fall to the ground, with a wound in her head, and I saw blood streaming from it. The girl did not move; and in my opinion she was killed. The only reason I can give for this shooting was that the girl may have attempted to take some of the turnips. I saw another girl who had been watching the incident called over by Basch [Barsch]. I heard Basch [Barsch] ask her if she was thirsty and the girl said she was. Basch [Barsch] then told her she could drink the dead girl’s blood. Cesa Silberberg was also present when this shooting took place.
 
Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Winter, Miriam)