TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT D-975

Date: Date Unknown

Total Pages: 3

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: D-975

HLSL Item No.: Unknown

AFFIDAVIT OF SZLOMA GOL [Supplement to Document D-964.]
I, SZLOMA GOL declare as follows:
As the corpses were taken from the mass graves, and before they were placed on the pyre, two persons were charged with extracting the gold from the teeth of the bodies with prongs, and two or three other persons simultaneously washed the gold in benzine. The washing of the gold thus extracted was done by three Jewish boys aged 12 to 13 who were among the 80 persons
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in the pit. The gold was packed in boxes each weighing 8 kilograms. During the period of my stay in the pit 7 or 8 such boxes were filled with dental gold. LEGEL ordered the boxes to be neatly packed because they were to be sent to Berlin. MURER personally took the boxes with him.
I declare the above to be correct.
[signed]: SZLOMA GOL
10 August, 1946.