Franz Suchomel, an SS sergeant at Treblinka, on hidden camera, describing the Lazarett, a fake infirmary where the old, the sick and children were shot at the edge of a burning pit:
“There was a white flag with a red cross. They didn’t know yet that they would be shot there.”
Lanzmann: “And children too?”
Suchomel: “Children too.”
Lanzmann: “Which children were sent to the Lazarett?”
Suchomel: “Sick children. Or if the mother was sick or the grandmother was old … then the children were sent along with the grandmother.”
Lanzmann: “How many people were shot in the Lazarett?”
Suchomel: “Let’s take it per day, not per transport. … Could have been twenty, but also two hundred.”
This is qt'ing a model I posted the other day of the Lazarett, to give some context to what it looked like.
Sourced from Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah outtakes at USHMM (RG-60.5046, reels FV3755 and FV3757). English captions translated from Suchomel’s German, with important help from
@gaemsae. I joined four sections of the interview into one clip. Cut and captioned by me.