MAD WOMEN PACKED IN SMALL CELL

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5279, 16 December 1946, Page 5

MAD WOMEN PACKED IN SMALL CELL

Horrible Story Relatecl At Ravensbruck Trial HAMBURG, December 14. A macabre story of mad women, paeked into a -locked room fighting to death was toltl by Jacq'ueline Hereil, a former camp inmate at tha trial of the Ravensbruck 'guards. She said: "There was not room to lie down and hardly room to sit. The women were half-naked, had no blankets, and" it was terribly cold in ihe winter. The women were never allowed to leave the room, even for • toilet. "On some nights fights would start in the room vvhere women would be killed and have their faces scratched to pieces. One morning four women were found dead from suffocation. "That day the accused Carmen Marie Mory asked a doctor to have some of the mad women exterminated. The room, 12 /eset by nine, • is •known as the black hole of Ravensbruck." The court heard from an Austrian woman, former prisoner Hermine Salvini, who was 'employed to keep the records, how she kept a death ledger in which she recorded some 60 death's a day.