us-005578-irn1004893
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date: 1987 May 22
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note: Abbreviated transcript with real time code idents available in departmental files.
scope and content: 15:47 Mrs. Ennat Vitte, a civil party, continues to testify regarding her experience in Ravensbrück 15:48 President Cerdini asks the witness to describe the circumstances under which she lost her eyesight in Ravensbrück, and whether her inability to walk is a consequence of her time there; the witness has difficulty answering the questions posed 15:52 Prosecutor Vuillard asks the witness to confirm a particular threat leveled at her by Barbie 15:54 President Cerdini calls forward the next witness, Mrs. Simone Lagrange née Kadosche, a civil party in the suit against Barbie 15:55 Mrs. Langrange testifies; she was arrested at age 13 on June 6, 1944 (D-Day); she was taken with her parents to the Gestapo headquarters in Lyon, where she met Barbie, who was holding a cat in his arms; Barbie hit her repeatedly and pulled her hair, asking for the address of her younger siblings; she and her parents were then taken to the Montluc prison 16:01 The witness spent several nights in Montluc with her mother, where Barbie often retrieved her to question and torture her, as well as her mother; she was sent to Drancy with her mother on June 23, 1944, and recalls Drancy as a time 'almost of happiness,' because she was with her mother 16:06 Mrs. Lagrange describes the transport from Drancy to Auschwitz, which lasted 5 days; she explains that by the end of the journey, they had become 'different people,' because of all of the deaths they had witnessed 16:09 The witness describes her arrival in Auschwitz and the undressing, shaving, and tattooing of the new inmates; she describes learning of the existence of the crematoria 16:14 The witness describes the evacuation from Auschwitz in January 1945; 25,000 prisoners left Auschwitz on January 18, and in February, the 2,000 survivors arrived at Ravensbrück; there, she saw her father executed 16:17 President Cerdini questions the witness; she describes learning Barbie's name from a TV broadcast in 1972; she was then interviewed for a TV broadca…
title: Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- A victim testifies