TAUBA VOGLER

The report of a testimony given at the Voivodeship Jewish
Historical Committee in Kraków on 24 April 1947.

Testimony heard by: Dr. L. Eichhorn

Witness:


Name and surname Tauba Vogler
Date and place of birth 18 June 1903 in Kraków
Place of residence before the war Kraków, Kalwaryjska Street 68
Current place of residence Kraków, Długa Street 38

Concernng: [Alice] Orlowski, “Chłopczyca” [Tomboy]

I came across Orlowski at Płaszów a few months after we arrived at the camp, when the Jewish police was replaced by stormtroops (men and women). She came to our block to see if it was clean and if there was anybody at the barrack illegally. She would beat people in an inhumane fashion.

Once, she came to the block and noticed someone moving on an upper-tier pallet. She climbed up there and she saw a thirteen-year-old girl, emaciated and feeble, who had remained in the barrack because of sickness and fell asleep. She grabbed the beater she always carried around with her and started to hit the child on her head, her eyes, her face so wildly that I was stupefied at the sight and had to turn my head away.

I myself was beaten many times, once in broad daylight, during a break from work, and on another occasion in the barrack. She did not care where it was that she hit or slogged someone with that beater of hers. It was said in the camp that she came from a German aristocratic family. The whole camp dreaded her and she shouted with this hoarse, whisky voice.

I hereby confirm the veracity of this deposition.