The murder of thousands of Jewish women in the gas chambers and experimental laboratories of Oswiecim was described at the War Crimes Court today by Mme. Marie-Claude Valliant-Couturier, French Communist deputy, who was imprisoned at the camp for more than a year.
Young women from Greece, France and Hungary were among those used for experiments in sterilization, Mme. Valliant-Couturier testified. Generally 300 were selected from incoming transports for these experiments, she said, while the remainder of the deportees were taken directly to the gas chambers.
She disclosed that when pregnant women arrived, the Nazi doctors induced immediate deliveries. If the child was born alive, it was immediately drowned. Jewish families transported from Theresianstadt were at first treated better than other prisoners, the French deputy reported, but eventually they, also, were executed.
Dr. Victor Dupont, a French physician, told of the transports of Jewish children sent to Oswiceim from Buchenwald, declaring that the youngsters know what fate was in store for them.
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