POLAND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 341immediately picked up all the clothes and carried them away to the barracks. Then the
people were obliged to walk naked through the street to the gas chambers.
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: I would like you to tell the Tribunal what the
Germans called the street to the gas chambers.
RAJZMAN: It was called Himmelfahrt Street.
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: That is to say, the 'street to heaven'?
RAJZMAN: Yes
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: Please tell us, how long did a person live after he had
arrived in the Treblinka Camp?
RAJZMAN: The whole process of undressing and the walk down to the gas chambers
lasted for the men 8 or 10 minutes, and for the women some 15 minutes. The women took
15 minutes because they had to have their hair shaved off before they went to the gas
chambers.
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: Why was their hair cut off?
RAJZMAN: According to the ideas of the masters, this hair was to be used in the
manufacture of mattresses for German women....
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: Please tell us, Witness, were the people brought to
Treblinka in trucks or trains?
RAJZMAN: They were brought nearly always in trains, and only the Jews from neigh-
bouring villages and hamlets were brought in trucks....
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: Please tell us what was the subsequent aspect of the
station at Treblinka?
RAJZMAN: At first there were no signboards whatsoever at the station, but a few
months later the commander of the camp, one Kurt Franz, built a first-class railroad sta-
tion with signboards. The barracks where the clothing was stored had signs reading
'Restaurant', 'Ticket Office', 'Telephone', 'Telegraph' and so forth. There were even
train schedules for the departure and arrival of trains to and from Grodno, Suwalki,
Vienna, and Berlin.
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: Did I rightly understand you, Witness, that a kind of
make-believe station was built...?
RAJZMAN: When the people descended from the trains, they really had the impression
that they were at a very good station...
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: And what happened later on to these people?
RAJZMAN: These people were taken directly along the Himmelfahrt-strasse to the gas
chambers.
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: And tell us, please, how did the Germans behave
while killing their victims in Treblinka?
RAJZMAN: If you mean the actual executions, every German guard had his special job.
I shall cite only one example. We had a Scharfuehrer Menz, whose special job was to
guard the so-called 'Lazarett'.... This was part of a square that which was closed in with
a wooden fence. All women, aged persons, and sick children were driven there. At the
gates of the 'Lazarett' there was a large Red Cross flag. Menz, who specialised in the mur-
der of all persons brought to this 'Lazarett', would not let anybody else do this job....
A 10-year-old girl was brought to this building from the train with her 2-year-old sister.
When the elder girl saw that Menz had taken out a revolver to shoot her sister, she threw
herself upon him, crying out, and asking why he wanted to kill her. He did not kill the
little sister; he threw her alive into the oven and then killed the elder sister... They
brought an aged woman with her daughter to this building. The latter was in the last