July 31, 1964 - Only one marriage took place at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis killed an estimated three million people during World War II, a Frankfurt court was told today.
Mrs. Raya Kagan (pictured), an Israeli who worked three years in the camp’s registration office, said that in 1942 the SS administration of the camp allowed a German inmate to marry a Spanish woman.
“Two years later he was hanged,” Mrs. Kagan added.
The 54-year-old witness, whom the Nazis seized in German-occupied Paris, testified that of the 67 women with whom she arrived at the camp in 1942, only four were still alive.
She told the court, which is prosecuting 20 former staff members of the notorious camp, that she once saw a condemned woman inmate open her wrist with a razor blade before slashing the face of an SS man.
“I will die like a heroine,” Mrs. Kagan quoted the woman as having shouted, “but you will die like a dog.”
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