THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, June 9, 19 61
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Eichmann to Testify in Own Defense
June 19; Final Prosecution Testimony
Reveals Gassing, Sterilization Crimes
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(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to
The Jewish News)
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JERUSALEM — Adolf Eich-
mann will testify in his own
defense on June 19, after a
week's recess next week to
enable the defense to prepare
its presentation, Presiding Judge
Moshe Landau announced Mon-
day night. The schedule was
based on the expectation that
the prosecution would complete
its presentation by the end of
this week.
The final stage of the pros-
ecution was a series of eyewit-
ness and documentary reports
on details on the operations of
the various death camps in
which most of the six million
European Jewish victims were
tortured And murdered by the
Nazis. • Testimony at the morn-
ing session Tuesday began with
a report by. a Polish-born sur-
vivor of the Chelmno camp that
at the age of 13 he was made a
member of a detail assigned to
remove gold teeth from the
bodies of gassed Jews before
the bodies were carted to the
camp crematoria.
Simon Srebnik, the young-
est witness to testify in the
trial to date, also said he saw
an average of- 1,200 Jews sent
to their deaths in the camp
during the nine months she -
was there, before the Rus-
sians found him apparently
dead.
The 29-year-old witness, now
a mechanic in Rishon Le-Zion,
said Chelmno did not have gas
chambers. The technique used
was hermetically-sealed trucks
in which the victims were
driven around till they were
dead from gassing. He said his
travail began one day as he
was. taking a Sabbath walk with
his father odz ghetto
when s. ng sudde began.
His f er fell dead an e was
'571e a group of Jews ro nded
up nd sent to helmn He
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scars of such bites. He said that torney General to proceed with
prisoners assigned to work de- plans to show on Thursday
tails were kept chained, forcing morning Nazi - made films of
them to hop around-in carrying camp atrocities. The Attorney
out their grisly assignments.
General said that since the
Two days before the Russians courtroom will be darkened
arrived, the Nazis started fran- during the film showing, he
tic efforts to murder all of the would ask that, for security
surviving inmates, he said. reasons, only the press be ad-
When the gassing facilities be- mitted during the showing.
came overtaxed, the Nazis
Three survivors of the Nazi
turned to mass shootings in . holocaust — two w
which he received a bullet through
at
which went through the lower Maidan
one who h
part of his head and out of his bee
t otorious Sobibor
mouth. The Nazis assumed he ca —testified in the Eich-
was dead and so, for -a time,
n trial, piling more grue-
did the Russians who found
ome details upon the earlier
him. When he was observed to grisly rep s of Nazi
be breathing 36 hours later,
Yosef R ik
Soviet medical unit.tdok char
bands pla
and healed him..
Maidanek,
Asserting he still suffer
marched
graves.
from the wounds he receiv
Yaacov rie•an, a
ish-
born Je who "pas
he broke into tears as
as a
said: "Many nights I can
Christian but who
s, never-
sleep. I still see them comi
theless, impriso
at Maidanek
after me. Those horrid p
when he wa
pected of being
tures still haunt me."
a memb
a Polish partisan
identified Eichmann as
The details of the death camp
at Treblinka were described by "one of the leaders and plan-
Yaacov Virnik who, as a master ners" of the Jewish annihila-
carpenter, was one of the build- tion program.
ers of the camp. He was sent
Friedman told the court he
there from his native Warsaw. was freed, "with other Chris-
He told the court that the 130- tians," in the spri
acre camp was a self-contained and warned t
e every-
`unit divided into two sections, thing he h
en and heard
"However," he
equipped with gas chambers, at Maid
said, "
gravepits and crematoria.
ew was ever
m Maidanek." Jiaus-
He said that at first victims lease
were buried outside. Then the ner ntered a doc e
SS experts devised the ovens ni ed to t
nt by Pol
hol
after previously unsuccessful
out 200,00
efforts to mass burn the vic-
tims of gassing. The 72-year-old ihilated b
aidanek al e.
witness, who spoke in Yiddish,
Resnik wa fighting
controlled himself only with
th .the
olish Army hen
as cap-
the greatest effort as' he de-
ed by the Ger
s in 1941.
scribed the camp.
told how
s from the
The witness, who was one of
the handful of Jewish captives ent . Lublin, Poland,
who managed to escape the were rounded up. - and brought
murderously efficient Nazi,
guards, said he escaped in an1
uprising organized by the Jew-
ish underground inside and out-
side Treblinka on Aug. 2, 1943.
He submitted to the court a
sketch of Treblinka which he
drew after his escape. Later
he built a model of the camp
which is now in the museum of
Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, a
photo of which was displayed
at this session.
He pointed out various instal-
lations, including one entrance
over which the Nazis had hung
a sign, "Judenstat" (Jewish
State) and the women's section
where the hair of the victims
was cut off before they were
handed a towel and soap for
the fatal "shower."
The court ruled Tuesday that
two witnesses who were steri-
lized. at Auschwitz were to
testify Wednesday in private.
Attorney General Gideon Haus-
ner had requested only a ban
on television and on disclosure
of the names of the two
Auschitz survivors, with their
names listed on a piece of
paper to be handed to the
three presiding justices. How-
ever, Justice Landau said it
would be difficult to assure
anonymity , for the witnesses
unless the courtroom was
cleared. The prosecutor had in-
formed the court that one wit-
ness has an adopted child.
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helped plan an uprising at
to Maidanek in 1943. On Nov.
2 and 3, he said, entire columns
of Jews were marched i
open mass graves, while
man bands played.
Dov Freiberg, who
he had spent 17 mont
Sobibor death camp,
was only 15 years old
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