On 17 March 1947, prosecutor from the Special Criminal Court in Kraków with its seat at Grodzka Street 52, this in the person of Deputy Prosecutor from the Ninth Region, Dr. Kordecki, and with the participation of a reporter, Trainee Judge Nowak, heard the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations and of the provisions of Article 107 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the witness testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Halina Nelken |
| Age | 22 years old |
| Parents’ names | Emanuel and Regina |
| Place of residence | Kraków, Starowiślana Street 78, flat 13 |
| Occupation | student |
| Religious affiliation | Jewish |
| Criminal record | none |
| Relationship to the parties | none |
I stayed in Płaszów from December 1943 to January 1944. At the end of May 1944, I returned to Płaszów and remained there until 21 October 1944, and that is where I met Luise Danz. In October 1944 I was sent to Auschwitz. On 18 January 1945 we were deported to Malchow, where we arrived in February. Luise Danz was an overseer there.
I met the defendant for the first time in Płaszów, and I remember from that period – as I witnessed it – how the defendant beat some prisoner. I saw how she simultaneously punched her in the chin and kicked her in the stomach with her knee. I heard the defendant yell as she showered the battered woman with abuse. I discussed it with other women who had also witnessed the incident and they said that they inferred from her expertise in torturing inmates that the defendant must have trained boxing.
My mother, Regina Nelken, who works in the Historical Commission at Długa Street, told me that she had seen the defendant and one Grüne, who was then a Schutzheftlagerführer [head of the camp], take turns beating some female prisoner.
When the Auschwitz camp was liquidated in January 1944 [should be: 1945], I got through various camps to Malchow in Mecklenburg, where I again met Luise Danz, who served there as an overseer. In that camp, Luise Danz worked in the capacity of Oberaufseherin [senior overseer]. She harassed us in a variety of ways, for instance, we were issued lice- infested blankets, and then we were reproached for the fact. Moreover, Danz would drive us to the forest to gather wood, threatening us that we wouldn’t receive dinner if we didn’t bring firewood, but she didn’t pay any heed to the fact that all prisoners were starved and exhausted to the breaking point.
One day in April, when we were being sent away in a transport, one of the prisoners, Rysia Helperin from Warsaw (address unknown), had wrapped herself in a blanket under the striped clothes before we set off and moreover took a flask with water. During inspection, Luise Danz noticed it and having torn the flask from her hand, beat Rysia about the head until the flask shattered into pieces. The prisoner was drained with blood.
Luise Danz hadn’t distributed the bread a day before the transport, and although we knew that there was bread on the train, we didn’t get any for two whole days on the road. We received that bread in Leipzig from the SS-Lagerführer, who was indignant at learning that we hadn’t received any during the transport.
I would like to emphasize that Luise Danz didn’t travel with us then.
The report was read out and signed.