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Source: https://www.dw.com/en/nazi-camp-survivor-recalls-stutthof-horrors-in-trial-of-guard/a-51600964
Nazi Camp Survivor Recalls Stutthof Horrors in Trial of Guard
(Deutsche Welle-Germany) Israeli Holocaust survivor Abraham Koryski, 92, gave evidence Monday in the trial of Bruno D., 93, a former SS guard accused of being an accessory to murder at the Stutthoff concentration camp from 1944 to 1945. "We were beaten constantly, the whole time, even while working," Koryski told the Hamburg District Court. "Worst of all were the whips." Koryski said he had seen SS guards put on sadistic "shows" to torture prisoners, including one instance in which a son was forced to beat his father to death in front of other inmates. Koryski said his "work" at the camp involved cleaning the crematorium, which meant loading bones and other burnt remains onto a cart to be thrown into a trench. Prosecutors argue that as a guard, Bruno D. helped the camp function and "supported the insidious and cruel killing of mainly Jewish prisoners."