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June 26, 1987 - Image 44

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1987-06-26

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44 Friday, June 26, 1987

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Leon Hostig: Holds Tannenbaum responsible for his brother's death.

who essentially ran the camp who had been
convicted for killing his wife; and a Wer-
macht officer who ran the kitchen.)
Later that month, said Hostig, a rabbit
had escaped from a small cage next to the
kitchen. The 21-year-old inmate who had
turned it into a meal was apprehended by
Tannenbaum.
"In front of Bloc No. 1, where I lived, was
a pole," said Hostig. "Tannenbaum beat the
boy, then tied him to the pole with his
hands above him. I slept in the top bunk
next to a window. The boy moaned and
moaned. I couldn't sleep. Then, there was
silence around 3 a.m. The boy had died."
"All the kapos were very selfish," said
Hostig. "They wanted to show more than
was required of them by the Germans.
There was no decency among them. There
were no good kapos. They were Tannen-
baum's little army. He didn't have to order
other kapos to beat us. They didn't need
orders. They did it.
"Being a kapo was being in heaven. Tan-

Photo by Arnold Becker

nenbaum got his own barber, his own
tailor, special food. He never had it so good
before the war."
Other survivors of Goerlitz also tell chill-
ing stories about Tannenbaum's behavior.
At one point, the kapo reportedly refused
to let coal be used to heat the "hospital."
Coal smuggled by healthier prisoners was
used only at night so Tannenbaum would
not discover the subterfuge.
Another time, Tannenbaum reportedly
called 45-year-old Jacob Adler a
"Hungarian prostitute," then slammed him
across the back with an iron bar, killing
him instantly. According to survivor David
Katz, Tannenbaum had the run of the
women's barracks and "raped anyone he
wanted," including a very religious
Chasidic girl with whom he wanted to live.
In February, 1945, said Katz, Tannen-
baum selected 300 Jews to be gassed at
Gross Rosen, a nearby concentration camp.
And two days before Chanukah, 1944, said
Leon Zelig, Tannenbaum came into the

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