It is horrifying reports that in these days come to by the court in Hamburg. Here is a 93-year-old former SS guard on trial. He is accused of having been involved in the 5230 killings during the Second world War.
the Then-16-year-old Abraham Koryski was close to being one of the victims.
The former jewish prisoner took Monday place in the witness box. From here he reported about life in the Polish concentration camp Stutthof, where the accused Bruno Dey had its time.
Abraham Koryski was 16 years old, when he in 1944 arrived in camp. He described, according to the German Bild during his questioning, how he and the other prisoners constantly being exposed to violence. Even when they worked.
He told how he and other jews were forced to run around naked in minus 20 degrees. So they got a cold shower and was forced to run again. Many did not survive, he explained, and was not slow to call the SS guard, the behaviour of the ‘sadistic’.
“They would show us that we were animals,” he said.
One of the more bestial experiences, which he featured, was, when he witnessed a son beat his father to death. Because the guards forced him to it, explained the witness.
According to Abraham Koryski was the father and the son is given two choices: Either beat the danger his son to death. Or also struck the son, the danger to death. It had ended with, that the father had let his son kill him.
Under the retsdagen Monday asked the judge, why Abraham Koryski had decided to testify against the former SS guard.
“I did not come because of revenge. I want the whole world to hear, what happened with the people (the jews, ed.),” he replied.
Bruno Dey is charged in the period between 9. august 1944 and 26. april 1945 ‘to have supported the vicious and cruel killing of jews in concentration camp’. Thus it sounds in the indictment.
the Trial takes place in a juvenile court, when he was just 17 years old when he was hired as a SS-guard. He refuses guilty of the charges. He argues that he as an individual could not have made anything up to help.
