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

Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Szymkowiak, Czeslawa)
 

(104) STATEMENT OF CZESLAWA SZYMKOWIAK (Pole, aged 23) (Not sworn)

I was at Auschwitz in the women det. from 1943, and was sent to the Block 246, where Stanislawa Starostka, called "Stenia," was Block Leader. She was the first Block Leader I have met. She has beaten us on every occasion and on any part of the body, mostly on the head, with anything she could get hold of. I still have an ache from her hits on the back. She scolded us in a vulgar manner and denounced us to the German authorities for every small offence. All feared her very much when she was walking in the camp area. All ran away as if they had seen the devil. She was the terror of the camp, and, for instance, during the roll-calls, for the smallest noise, as punishment she ordered us to kneel with the hands in the air during half an hour and more. As Block Leader and Camp Leader she was a beast and not a human creature. She was mercenary, and those who could give food could have her favour; for the rest she did not have any favour. I heard it from persons with whom I marked, and I do not remember the name.
 
Appendices (Affidavits & Statements - Szymkowiak, Czeslawa)