On 23 July 1947, Investigative Judge from the District Court in Kalisz with its seat in Kalisz, E. Strembski, with the participation of a reporter, R. Olejniczak, interviewed the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Edmund Heininger |
| Age | 42 years old |
| Parents’ names | Edward Gustaw and Anna |
| Place of residence | Kalisz, Wierzbowa Street 7 |
| Occupation | colorist painter |
| Criminal record | none |
| Relationship to the parties | none |
My detention in the camp in Majdanek lasted from 1942 to April 1944. In October 1943 I began to work in the camp laundry as a clerk, a book-keeper and a storeroom attendant. In discharging these duties, I met Orlowski who was entrusted with the task of supervising the girl labor unit. It was the penal unit (the witness has been shown a photo and he has recognized, though with difficulty, Alice Orlowski).
The labor unit in question was made up mainly of Poles and Russians. Orlowski usually had an SS uniform on. She also wore an SS forage hat with a skull. Serving as a book-keeper and a storeroom attendant, I won the trust of the laundry management and the supervising women. I often talked with Orlowski as we would sit in the same room. She can be called a sadist because she mistreated and tortured prisoners, beating them with a whip (a leather strap made of a hard skin with a lead ending). I saw her beating women in the face with this whip and with her hands.
Once, after beating someone, she returned to the room that I was in and after a while she was about to leave to beat another prisoner. I snatched the whip from her hand, broke it and threw it into the stove. I told her that the commandant forbade the beating because prisoners, when beaten, were unable to work efficiently. I threatened to report her to the commandant if she continued the beating. Surprised at what I had done, she cried, “Do you know, you bandit, what you have done! I could crush you with this boot studded with Prussian nails”. In saying this, she raised her leg up to my nose. I replied, “Yes, I know what I have done”. However, from that moment on she changed her behavior and stopped the beatings. The laundry chief, with whom I often talked and who agreed with me, also admonished her. He may have also had a hand in making her change the way she behaved.
She talked a lot in my presence, discussing various topics with the other supervising woman. From her accounts I learned that Orlowski was to be an English spy [but I don’t know when] and that she was caught on the border during her flight to Switzerland. She was told that either she would accept the job in the camp or she would be arrested.
She also told me that she had been decorated with Hitler’s Golden Badge and that she could have an audience with Hitler at any time.
Orlowska was an alcoholic and often seemed insane. Sometimes she worked herself into a frenzy and tortured prisoners whom she filled with terror. However, towards the end of the camp’s existence, she changed just as all the others did. She didn’t beat anyone and she even brought food to some prisoners.
In April 1944 I was deported to Groß-Rosen. I don’t know what happened then to Orlowska.
I have testified all I know. The report was read out.