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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 28, 1961
Victim Tells Nazi Terror
JERUSALEM — (UPI) A Jewish woman told today of watching the Nazis take her father away in a truck. She said she followed on the run and found his bullet riddled body in a forest.
Mrs. E. Lichtmann testified against Adolf Eichmann, charged with the mass murder of six million Jews. She is a stout, middle-aged woman, wearing glasses, and by a special ruling of the court was allowed to testify in Yiddish rather than Hebrew.
She stood in the witness box, directly across the courtroom from Eichmann, and told her story in a flat, unemotional voice.
EICHMANN had been busy most of the morning examining piles of documents on the table inside his bullet proof box, but when Mrs. Lichtmann began to testify he pushed them aside and listened carefully.
On Sept. 12, 1939, Mrs. Lichtmann said, the Nazi army entered the small town near Cracow, Poland, where she lived with her family.
"The Germans went from one house to another," she said, "and took men without any consideration for age, my father among them. They were all put in the market place and ordered to hold their hands behind their necks. Thirty-two Jewish men were taken that day."
Q. (By Israeli Attorney General Gideon Hausner) Did they take the males on a truck?
A. They were first photographed and the names recorded and then they were marched to the market place and forced to cry out "we are traitors to the people" in the German language.
Q. Did you see this with your own eyes? No.
Q. What happened to those males?
A. THEY were put onto trucks and taken away. With a young lady who was to be my sister-in-law we ran after the trucks. Her father,
two brothers and a brother-in-law were taken from her house. We ran as far as a small forest at Kaschitz.
Q. What did you see?
A. All the men were dead on the ground. Among them was my father. He was shot in many places in his body. All were stretched out on the ground in groups of five men.
C. What did you do?
A. I kissed my father. Then, when I arrived back in town, I went to the council of the community and begged for help to bury our dead.
A. You burry your father?
B. On the following day. In the morning.
Mrs. Lichtmann said that later the Nazis forced her to clean the streets of her home town — "We had to collect garbage with our hands."
SHE SUCCEEDED in escaping to Cracow, she said, but in November, the Nazis struck at the Jews there. Jewish homes were searched and the occupants were ordered out into the streets.
"We had a neighbor an old orthodox man. They put a ham in his hand and ordered him to dance and say prayers. Then he was told to pretend he was choking a German and this was photographed. Many were shot and killed."
Mrs. Liechtmann said that in 1941 she had returned to her home town of Wielice. The residents were told they would be allowed to live there if they paid a compulsory fine.
"We handed over everything we had" she said, "jewels, money and furs. But on the following morning we were surrounded by units in black and green uniforms who drove us out of our homes into the market place.
"THE SICK or weak who couldn't run were shot. Those who remained were put in the market place. The youths were put to one side and the oldsters and women and children on another side. We were between two rows of black and green uniformed soldiers. Then we were made to run and he who
fell was killed on the spot with whips and sticks and shooting."
We then went from Wielice to a factory where they made Polish airplanes. It was cold and the snow was high. We were all put into the hangars. I was just over 20 and married at this time."
Mrs. Lichtmann said that in her home town, synagogues were used as places of execution.
"There they were slaughtered by shooting," she said. "Those who tried to escape from the windows were shot on the spot outside."
In the airplane factory, the witness said, the Jews were punished if they tried to melt a handful of snow to give a drink of water to a child.
Prof. Gilbert Seldes, dean of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on "The role of the Critic in Broadcasting" at the eighth annual Radio-TV banquet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Seldes to Address Radio-TV Dinner
Students in radio-television will receive special recognition for their scholarship and activities at the banquet. Two special awards will also be given, one to a Kansas broadcaster for his contributions to this field, and another to a faculty member for contributions to educational broadcasting.
The guest speaker, Prof. Seldes, created the television program department of the Columbia Broadcasting System, helped produce the historical feature film "This is America" and won numerous awards for his radio series "Immigrants: All-Americans All."
He also has been an editorial writer for Colliers, a writer for The Saturday Evening Post and managing editor of The Dial.
Louanna Cole Simmons, Lawrence senior, was among those students elected last week into Phi Beta Kappa, national honor society.
Simmons Named To Phi Beta Kappa
Mrs. Simmons' name was eroneously omitted from last week's list.
Initiation ceremonies for the 35 seniors and one graduate student elected will be held at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union.
High School Girls Plan Recreation Day
About 300 high school girls and their sponsors from 15 high schools will participate in the annual Women's Recreation Association play day tomorrow in Robinson Gym.
Each girl will choose one of these five sports: bowling, tennis, volley ball, swimming or modern dance and attend a clinic with demonstrations and explanations on that sport. The girls will then be given a chance to try out the new techniques learned.
After lunch members of Quack Club and Tau Sigma will entertain with swimming and modern dances.
History Prof. Says Reform Is Desire for Conformity to Truth
Reform is the expression of a desire to have men's actions and ideas conform with the truth.
This was the theme of a lecture at the Humanities Forum last night by Clifford S. Griffin, assistant professor of history.
"TRUTH IS NOT something that we know, it extends beyond us," he explained. "The reformer is a steward of truth."
He went on to say that the reformer is a type of Janis, looking two directions at once. One direction looks to the past truths, the other to the future which truth may manifest.
Sudlow Awarded Residence Fellowship
"Most historians have not seen what reform has done to the reformer. The majority of historians prefer to deal with the reform itself, and pay little attention to the man or individual who does or does not push it."
Robert N. Sudlow, assistant professor of drawing and painting, has been awarded a summer residence fellowship to Villa Montalvo at Saratoga, California. The villa, once the estate of the late Senator Phelan of California, is now held by a foundation that operates it as a colony for creative artists in music, writing and art.
HE SAID THAT Protestantism has been a good influence in America for it has made all men privileged to search for the truth and has destroyed the need for the church as an interpreter.
"Protestantism has made people free to discover truth for themselves and others," he said.
"No American reform has possessed a truth which disregards the total reconstruction of American society," he commented. "A reformer has many truths and seeks to satisfy society's demands at the same time he has faith in a truth."
Entry Deadline for Quill Contest Set
Students and faculty members interested in submitting short stories and poetry for Quill Magazine should do so before the deadline next Wednesday.
Three prizes will be awarded in the amounts of $15, $10 and $5 for the best articles published in the literary magazine.
Articles may be submitted in Room 203 Fraser.
Correction
The headline appearing in Tuesday's Kansan saying that the retirement dinner will be held May 8 is incorrect. The dinner will be held May 5, as the story stated.
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