Shock statement in the concentration camp trial |
“In Stutthof there was cannibalism – it was hell”
Itzehoe – In the trial against the concentration camp secretary Irmgard Furchner (96), a survivor testified on Tuesday and reported on appalling conditions in the camp near Danzig.
Furchner is accused of aiding and abetting murder in 11,387 cases before the district court. From June 1943 to April 1945 she is said to have worked as a civilian employee in the camp headquarters.
The accused Irmgard F. before the district court in Itzehoe
Risa Silbert (93) testified as a witness in Australia via video: “Stutthof was hell. We had cannibalism in the camp, people were hungry and they cut up the corpses and they wanted to take out the liver.”
“It was every day,” added Silbert.
In 1944, as a 15-year-old, Silbert and her older sister hid under corpses from the SS guards, the witness explained. Because of a typhoid epidemic, there were dead everywhere.
The Russian prisoners of war who had to collect the bodies would have left her and her sister. (dpa/nat)