Testimony of Otto Wolken, born in Vienna, Austria, 1903, regarding his experiences in Mauthausen, Esterwegen, Zweibrucken, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in hiding and other places

Testimony of Otto Wolken, born in Vienna, Austria, 1903, regarding his experiences in Mauthausen, Esterwegen, Zweibrucken, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in hiding and other places Annexation to Germany, 1938; detention as a member of the Social-Democratic party; evades the Gestapo; put on trial in a civil court of law on an alleged charge of criminal activity; deportation from the prison to Mauthausen; camp life for two weeks; transfer to Esterwegen; transfer to Zweibrucken; camp life until January 1943; transfer to Saarbruecken; transfer to Bingerbrueck; transfer to Frankfurt Am Main; stops at railroad stations en route to Auschwitz; transfer to Birkenau; camp life including his appointment as the head physician in the camp "hospital" for inmates following a typhus epidemic, 1943; administration of a secret index card catalog of sick inmates and inmates who died; statistical data regarding selections made with the aim of extermination; evades preparation of a list of sick inmates intended for extermination; rescue of people by stealing their cards from the card catalog of an SS man named Flagge, who knew about it; hides the lists in a tin cannister; life in hiding during the liquidation of the camp; removal of the lists from the hiding place; liberation. Witness hands over the documents for a trial against war criminals in Krakow; doubts by an SS man named Voigt regarding the fate of the people on the German team; witness' activities as a member of the War Crimes Commission; visits in Auschwitz; finds various documents including letters of correspondence with the Topf company regarding the crematoria and documents regarding the transports.