The Nizkor Project: Remembering the Holocaust (Shoah)  Shofar
FTP Archive File: camps/auschwitz/starotska.001  Archive/File:
camps/auschwitz starotska.001 Last-Modified: 1994/07/14
Testimony of Stanislawa Starotska (quoted in "The Belsen Trial".
In that trial, BTW, SS personnel and former inmates of Auschwitz
who  were later transferred to Belsen testified).  p. 418:  Q.
How was the Appell [roll-call] for selection for the gas chamber
run?  A. The doctor was present and he chose weak and sick
people instead of    healthy ones. My part was exactly the same
as during the other     parades. I had to keep order and see
that everything was all right.    I never helped the staff of
the concentration camp during the     selection for the gas
chambers.  p. 421:  Q. How did the SS behave towards the
prisoners at Auschwitz?  A. The prisoners in Auschwitz were
treated very badly, and beaten on     every occasion. They had
to work very hard, the accommodation was     very bad, they had
lice and other diseases, and dogs