It was done not by SS, but it was done by the German supervisor in my factory where I worked, Arado, the airplane factory. I was very sick at that time. I had fever, my finger. I couldn't perform the work.
He didn't know that I was sabotaging all along. But the beating was about my inability to perform my work. He threw me down.
He wore high boots and he started to stomp on me. They didn't have guns, the Meisters. He was stomping on me, breaking my ribs.
It was horrible. I had a fever anyway because my finger was infected and the two girls that worked in the same division, the same horrible place, helped me back after our work and that's when I went to that place where the sick people were and they said don't say a word. because in few days we will be liberated.
We knew the fire was... We were liberated April 20-something, when the Russians reached Wittenberg and displaced the people from the camps. They had no time to kill us.
They went... The plan was to kill us, but they just plainly didn't have time. And I survived.