Sent to the Military Auditor in Brussels
13 June 1945
Police Commissioner
Province of Brabant
Brussels Region
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Police
First Division
Report no. 2672
PRO JUSTITIA
On 6 June 1945, I, Albert Jaspers, commissioner assigned to the police, delegated by the police commissioner of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, was notified by the registry office that one Vania Frydman, born 17 February 1928 in Czertowa [?] (Poland), single, was registered as living at rue Potagère 61, having returned from Germany. She is not listed as wanted. The interviewee, Vania Frydman, testifies:
I wish to testify in French.
In 1942 I lived with my parents in Liège at rue Sainte Marguerite 164. My father was arrested in June or July 1942. He was first deported to France and then, in September, to Poland. In September 1942 my mother, my brother Karol (b. 1933), and my sister Roza (b. 1930) were arrested and deported.
I spent the nights at my neighbors’, the Flemal couple, at rue de la Légia 32 in Liège. I was arrested on 21 October 1943. In January 1944 I was deported to Birkenau (Auschwitz). I had to work in munitions and suffer abuse from the camp overseers. Esler [Hössler] was the head. He selected prisoners and chose the men and women to be gassed and burned in the crematorium. The crematorium was headed by one Tauber.
Of the SS female guards the following were abusers: Dresle [Drechsler], Lia, whose real name was Gertrude. She came from a small village near Breslau.
I know the names of many women – not all of whom were Belgian, but they lived in Belgium – who perished in the camp, i.e., were gassed and burned. I will try to compile a list with all the relevant details as far as I am able to recall them.
I have no news of my parents, brother, and sister.
I am currently living with Mrs. Beiber, who was interned with me at Malines.
I will probably move into the house for young girls in Anderlecht, at Boulevard Jules Graindor 6.
The report was read out and signed.