"District East:" "Lublin, Treblinka?" "It was a small camp." "I don't know method of destruction." "With his generals, the Führer inspects the guard." "On that day." "In my town, they shot and killed 12,000 people." "They put up the machine guns." "Brought the people to the market." "Closed the four entrances to the market.." "...and shot at every one..shot them..." "They ordered everyone to stand against the wall and shot them." "And my parents were at a window and saw that they were shooting at me." "But I fell at the start of the shooting and everyone else fell on top of me." "After all our efforts for a normal solution failed there was now pressure for other solutions." "It was late in 1941 that I was first informed.." "...about these new methods." "He was there." "He had documents." "He had documents that showed hey had shot me.." "...those Germans, those bastards." "I know that they shot you." "They killed you." "He thought someone had been faking the documents." "I remember him." "A young man with his military hat ...with its skull badge." "He was young-slim." "I still see his face.." "He looked at me, then he says to me:" "You are so and so?" " Yes?" "But on my desk it says they shot you on such and such a day." "Who are you trying to fool?" " I'm not playing at anything." "Then he began to ask me about Haifa." "I had one, two, maybe three glasses of cognac." "Do you remember what was talked about?" "The different methods of killing." " Different methods...?" "We lived in 70 centimetres of bed space." "And the bugs and lice weren't just in our hair, but all over our body." "They devoured us." "Sanitary conditions were awful." "And the old people were starving to death.." "Every morning a flat cart with four wheels would pass by.." "...and collect the dead bodies from the houses." "Eichmann was in charge of these inspection visits.." "Of the Red Cross to Theresenstadt." "And we all stood around and scrubbed and cleaned the houses and the streets.." "So that the red cross would think that everything was just fine.." "Kindergardens were opened and they gave us slices of bread and butter." "Actually it was Eichmann and the representatives of the German Red Cross." "And the purpose of the inspection was to pacify them.." "...to serve as propaganda." "Two days before we had a good lunch.." "...and later participated in the comedy which he organised." "After a few days we got a notice in the ghetto.." "...that a Mr Adolf Eichmann would come to visit the ghetto." "Suddenly Eichmann appeared." "We saw him." "He was appeared very strong." "Dressed in a green SS uniform." "Other officers were with him." "One question, sit down please." "I'd rather stand." "We formed a half circle around him." "And he began to give a speech .." "To talk.. unbelievably.. in yiddish." "Everyday yiddish." "He knew it perfectly." "Dear Jews you are now going to a place, a very beautiful and nice place." "The children, your children, will learn at school.." "...and you will work during the day, and at night you'll return." "It will all be fine and good - and you'll have a complete and happy family life." "We didn't know what to believe." "But maybe, just maybe, this was our salvation." "After a day we got orders to go to the railway station." "At the railway station we sensed what was about to happen." "We were about a hundred people." "We were crowded, stifled, pressed up." "Young children, infants, yelling, crying.." "...mamma, wasser, in yiddish water," "Mama, water." "And the mothers sang to them sleep my child." "And we didn't know where we were going." "Three days later we arrived at Auschwitz." "There was a strong smell." "The smell of burning flesh." "A doctor was standing there... and with a small movement of his hand he ordered us to go left or right." "My parents went to the right." "I didn't have a chance to say goodbye to them." "I was ordered to the left." "Then a door opened and I saw bodies, bodies holding each other." "Bodies pressed up tight against each other... then they started to fall." "They told us to remove the bodies." "There were pits with fires underneath... and there they burnt the bodies." "He was very angry that in Paris the trains didn't leave on time." "He said this had never happened to him before." "He was very angry, and really fell upon the French officials." "In Holland - by way of contrast - there wasn't such a problem." "And he himself said at the trial it was wonderful.." "...how efficiently the trains ran in Holland." "Edelstein came from Prague." "His task was to teach the locals.." "How to establish an overall Jewish Council... and how it was necessary to cooperate with the Germans." "Then he told us the Germans intended to murder us.." "And complained that we Dutch didn't understand the gravity of the situation." "Those in charge in Holland were Austrians like him." "Eichmann wanted to dispatch 40,000 from Holland, but the numbers exceeded 50,000 by the end of year." "That's why Eichmann said in Holland there were few problems.." "And the trains ran like clockwork." "They put the people into a line, and surrounded them... with Jewish, and armed Ukranian and German police." "But the Jewish underground infiltrated the mass of people.." "And upon queue they started shooting the Germans." "Then everybody rushed away." "I know this because I was there." "When it happened I was there." "This marked the beginning of the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto." "Eichmann never had a smile on his face." "You could never tell what he was thinking." "He was like a statue." "The hotel Majestic belonged to a famous Jewish agricultural expert." "And you could find the native fruit trees of Hungary in the hotel gardens." "They told us there were also special fruit there, apples and peaches.." "Which were going to be sent to Hitler." "They brought Jewish children to clear out the weeds." "When these kids left the orchard they were searched.." "And they found 14 peaches on one boy." "Suddenly there were shouts... as we approached the dining room with the food." "Eichmann picked up a log of wood... and hit the boy across his back." "We didn't know why." "The boy fell... hit his head on the first and second step." "His brains split open." "He died on the spot." "The peaches were green and useless." "For two long months the defenders of Budapest.." "Stand alone in their heroic battle." "The Bolshevik tanks get under German and Hungarian fire." "In my eyes breaking an oath is the worst crime... and felony a man can commit." "Even a great crime than the murder of six million people?" "Among them half a million children?" "No!" "Of course not!" "But I didn't deal with murder." "If I had been a murderer..." "I suppose I would have committed suicide." "Here." "I'm handing to you your manuscript." "Yes, your honor.You ask me... to give you a clear answer." "I have to declare... that I see in the murder and extermination of the Jews.." "One of the worst crimes in the history of humanity."