In The Hell Of Auschwitz; The Wartime Memoirs Of Judith Sternberg Newman [Illustrated Edition]

Judith Sternberg Newman

• Publisher: Normanby Press
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781786255778
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Jewish History
• Index: History

Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The HolocaustDespite the Nazi oppression of all Jews in the lands under their control, Judith Sternberg Newman and her family were hugely fortunate to have managed get permission to settle in Paraguay in 1940. However their escape was blocked by the German authorities who refused to provide an exit visa, from that moment on, as the author notes, "fate turned against us". As the author relates in these horrific memoirs are the torments, brutality and death at Auschwitz; the treatment that left here by the end of the war as the only surviving member of her family. She emigrated to America in 1947 where she was able to practise at her chosen profession in nursing and raise a family.

APPENDIX

Summary of

The Trial of Rudolf Hoess

COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ

WARSAW, MARCH 11—APRIL 2, 1947

(Translated from the Polish)

THOSE who passed judgment on Hoess sat in a large room with white walls, unadorned except for the red-and-white Polish national flag behind the judges. The Polish Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Eimer, was composed of five robed judges, six jurors and the prosecutors Cyprian and Siewierski. The charge was severe, but the rights of the defense were respected and the attitude toward the witnesses was always correct—unlike in German courts, where witnesses were often treated as if they were defendants.

THE CHARGE. The trial opened March 11, 1947, in Warsaw with the reading of the indictment, which contained the following information:

Rudolf Franz-Ferdinand Hoess, son of Franz Xavier and Pauline (née Speck), born November 25, 1900, in Baden-Baden, married, father of five children, a believer (in God), German citizen, member of the National-Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (N.S.D.A.P.) since 1922 (membership card No. 3240), member of the SS since 1923, concentration-camp official at Dachau, beginning in 1934; Sachsenhausen, beginning in 1938; Auschwitz, beginning May 1, 1940; SS Obersturmbannführer sentenced to ten years of forced labor in 1924 by the German Reich for participation in an assassination implementing the decision of a secret court (Femegericht); now in custody in Warsaw; being charged with-

Taking part in a criminal organization called N.S.-D.A.P. within the territory of the German Reich from September 1, 1639, to May, 1945, and in the occupied territory of the Polish Republic from May, 1, 1940, until September, 1944. This organization intended to overpower other nations by planning, organizing and executing crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity; belonging also to the criminal organization known as Schutzstaffeln (SS);

Having been, from May 1, 1940, until the end of October, 1943, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, which he himself had founded and enlarged in in the occupied territory of the Republic of Poland; then from December, 1943, to May, 1945, head of the D.I. Office in the Central Office of Economics and Administration of the SS; similarly, having been during June, July and August of 1944 commandant of the SS garrison at Ausch...

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• IN MEMORIAM
• I
• II
• III
• Illustrations
• IV
• V
• VI
• VII
• APPENDIX