Survivor to SS Guard: ‘Soon We Will Stand in Front of the Highest Judge’

16 Feb 2016
History

From the JTA:

The trial for a 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard opened with testimony from a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor, at the trial near Detmold, Germany, on Thursday, Reuters reported.

“I want to know why millions of Jews were killed and here we both are,” Schwarzbaum, who lost 35 family members in the Holocaust, said after detailing his memories of Auschwitz.

“Soon we will both stand in front of the highest judge — tell everyone here what happened, the way I’ve done just now!”

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