We´re here on Papestrasse, at one of the earlier concentration camps that was active in 1933 and it´s still in its original state, so, it is quite an overwhelming experience here. This place is one of the few remaining testimonies of the early National Socialistic Terror. The National Socialists, they established concentration camps and this place is one of the few remaining camps in their original condition.This door for example has the number 2 and because of that number we know, what happened in this room in the year 1933 and this room was the prison cell for women. And there were about twenty to twenty five women in this room imprisoned and here we have pictures of women who had to stay in this room and original documents from the year 1933.In this audio-station the woman describes how other women were raped in front of other prisoners, were tortured and even beaten to death in this cellar rooms here.
So this room is a former washing room, which was also in this condition in the year 1933 and there´s also a communist worker called Martin Michalak, who was killed here in this room and they really wrote down what had happened to him, so, that he was killed at the General-Papestrasse by the SA field police, so, everything was written down. He was shot by the SA man.
So, here there´s still wall drawings and wall inscriptions. Here´s one that shows the silhouette of a man called David Moses Wiener-Trisker. The words are written down in Latin letters, but also in Hebrew and as well you can see the date: 15th of June 1933 and also the word Jew. But we don´t know, if he himself draw it or one of the SA men. That´s an unanswered question, but we know, they had to do exercises, run up and down this corridor. They had to stand near the wall with their hands up and they ´ve also had been tortured here and the prisoners also describe, that it was very noisy in here. You could hear people screaming in the other rooms or you could also hear the SA-men singing in the upstair-floors during the nights and the people sitting down here with their wounds everywhere and that´s what they describe, that´s what we know.