Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Theresienstadt - Executions Summary: Reply-To: kmcvay@nospamnizkor.org Followup-To: alt.revisionism Keywords: theresienstadt Archive/File: camps/theresienstadt/theresien.06 Last-Modified: 1994/09/20 "Curfew was imposed on all of Terezin, Czechs and Jews alike. In the freezing cold, nine prisoners were brought to the gallows, including the two who had freely confessed to Seidl. Gu"nther, whose office had issued the execution order, arrived from Prague; Seidl was present, as was the entire Council of Elders, who had been ordered to attend. Seidl read out the sentences: by order of the security police headquarters of Bohemia and Moravia, the following were sentenced to death by hanging for offending German honor. The names included a medical student, a glazier, a traveling salesman, two electricians. Their crimes were: writing a letter requesting a grandmother to send food, removing the Jewish star in order to buy honeycake in a shop - an act interpreted as an attempt at escape - a careless wave of the hand which had inadvertantly touched the arm of an SS man. One of the sentenced men asked that his wedding ring be given to his wife; one said, 'This won't help you win the war"; one sang Voskovec and Werich's famous song 'When we will march by the millions, all against the wind.' To one, Bergel said, 'Come, coward,' and the man replied, 'I am innocent, not a coward,' after which he put the rope around his own neck. At one point the rope broke and the executioner asked that tradition be followed and the man set free. Seidl refused. The Czech gendarmes who attended the execution were as white as chalk (one secretly operated a camera with his foot so that there would be evidence). Dr. Munk was asked to certify the deaths, and when one of the victims still showed signs of life, he asked Seidl to have him shot so as to end his suffering." (Bondy, 261-2) Work Cited Bondy, Ruth. Elder of the Jews. New York: Grove Press, 1989. (Translated from "Edelshtain neged had-zeman". Zmora, Bitan, Modan, publishers, 1981
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