Hinda Elsztajn: report re Nazi persecution

Hinda Elsztajn: report re Nazi persecution 

Mr and Mrs Elsztajn were Polish Jews living in Belgium. They were arrested in 1943 and transported to Malines. Mrs Elsztajn describes how people feared Commandant Schmidt of Malines and Breendonck. They were taken to Auschwitz where she was experimented on by Dr. Clauberg and with him were doctors Goebbels, Weber, Wirtz and Samuel, a German Jew, who tried his best for them, but was killed before Auschwitz was evacuated because he knew the secrets of Block 10 where the women who were used for experiments were kept. On 18 January 1945 they were evacuated from Auschwitz to Ravensbrück on foot in the extreme cold, thence to Malchow towards Leipzig-Taucha on trains under continuous bombardment. On 25 April 1945 they were liberated by the Americans and she was repatriated by plane to Belgium where she was reunited with her daughter. 

Hinda Elsztajn: report re Nazi persecution