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| 2. PROSECUTION TESTIMONY AND AFFIDAVITS |
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| EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION WITNESS ELIZABETH ROTH
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DIRECT EXAMINATION
MR. THAYER: Witness, will you tell
the Tribunal your name?
WITNESS ROTH: My name is Elizabeth Roth.
Q. Your name — is your last name spelled R-o-t-h?
A.
That’s right.
Q. And will you tell the Tribunal your age?
A. I was born in 1923 on 7 August in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia.
Q. Is that a section of Czechoslovakia which was taken over by the
Hungarians during the war?
A. That is right, and now it belongs to
Russia.
Q. Will you tell the Tribunal how it happened that you were
taken from your home during the war, and what was done with you at first, the
first few days? Where were you taken from your home?
A. I was taken
from my home to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. On 19 May I arrived
there. I was separated from my family, my mother, father, sister, and brother.
I was left with my sister who is 2 years younger. I stayed at Auschwitz for 6
weeks where all my belongings first were taken away. My hair was shaven. I got
a prisoner's gown, wooden shoes, and that is all.
Q. Will you tell the
Tribunal when you left Auschwitz? Did your family go with you?
A. My
family was taken to the gas chambers first when we arrived at Auschwitz.
Q. Who did you leave Auschwitz with?
A. With my sister.
Q. Did you leave Auschwitz also with other persons?
A. We left
Auschwitz, 2000 girls and women.
Q. Do you know why you and your sister
were not sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz?
A. Well, probably
because we were young and healthy for working in Germany.
Q. And then
will you tell the Tribunal where you went from Auschwitz, to work some place?
A. I was sent to work in Germany, to Gelsenberg.
Q. Was that
the concentration camp Gelsenberg?
A. Gelsenberg, yes. |
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* Miss Roth testified in
English. Complete testimony is recorded in the mimeographed transcript. 8
January 1948, pp. 1251-1326.
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