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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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In Jerusalem's Eichmann trial, Polish-born Simon Srebnik testified that at age 13, he extracted gold teeth from gassed Jewish victims in Chelmno camp, where 1,200 Jews were killed daily over nine months using gas vans. Attorney General Gideon Hausner held Eichmann responsible.
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JERUSALEM (AP) - A young Jew told the Eichmann trial court yesterday that at 13 he was forced to extract the gold teeth from bodies of gassed victims in the Chelmno concentration camp.
Simon Srebnik, a Polish-born mechanic now in Israel, testified he saw an average of 1,200 Jews paraded to their deaths daily over a period of nine months.
The routine was always the same, he said. The Jews were given towels and soap and 80 to 100 at a time were herded into a big van and driven away.
"The doors were hermetically sealed," he said. "When the van moved on, the gas would enter it and in this way they all were killed."
Srebnik's job was to pull gold out of the teeth of the bodies on their arrival at the crematorium.
"I do not sleep well at night. Those horrid pictures are still haunting me," the witness said.
Atty. Gen. Gideon Hausner said Eichmann was responsible for the Jews being sent to such death camps and "therefore is responsible for what happened to them there."
Srebnik said all the Jews forced into the operational work of the death camp were chained night and day.
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average of 1,200 jews killed daily over nine months in chelmno camp; eichmann held responsible by atty. gen. hausner
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Simon Srebnik testified in the Eichmann trial that at age 13 he was forced to extract gold teeth from bodies of gassed Jewish victims in Chelmno concentration camp. Jews were herded 80-100 at a time into a hermetically sealed van where gas killed them en route to the crematorium. All operational workers were chained night and day.