HENRYK HABER

On 20 May 1947 in Jelenia Góra, Investigating Judge of the District Court in Jelenia Góra, Judge T. Szewczyk, with the participation of a reporter, Trainee Judge M. Rouba, interviewed the person named below as an unsworn witness. Having advised the witness of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the judge swore the witness in accordance with Articles 107–115 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, whereupon the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Henryk Haber
Age 35
Parents’ names Michał and Anna
Place of residence Cieplice Śląskie, 3 Maja Street 5
Occupation merchant
Criminal record none
Relationship to the parties none

I was at Auschwitz from 8 January 1941 until 13 March 1943. From the list of war criminals read out to me I can say the following about the following individuals:

1) Hermann von Seggern – was a clerk in the 5th Landwirtschaft [farming] company. His treatment of prisoners was alright, in fact he had no closer contact with us. I am not familiar with the details of his activity.

2) Wilhelm Züg [Zieg] – when I encountered him in May 1942 he was commander of the Landwirtschaft division in which I worked. He was strict but I don’t recall that he abused anyone.

4) Gustav Golisch – during my time he was a guard for the Babice mill kommando and had ten Poles under him. One time – I believe it was in 1942 – Golisch discovered that his whole kommando was making plans to escape and he reported it to the camp command, as a result of which all the ten people from the carter’s kommando were shot in block 11. There were rumors in the camp that it was because of Golisch that the escape had come out, but I cannot say whether that was 100% true because there were other SS men there in addition to him.

It is possible that I encountered some of the other SS men on the list read out to me, but without photographs and based on names alone I cannot ascribe the actions of different SS men to [specific] perpetrators.

I also recall that in 1941 and 1942 my Babice kommando was supervised during agricultural work by Alexander Büllow, who yelled at us constantly for no reason and hit [us] with a stick. He was a sadist who continually picked on the prisoners for no reason and always found cause for dissatisfaction. In concluding, I state that I do not recall any other names of SS men at the present moment.

I have testified.

The report was read out and signed.