did not get a chance to burn them. Fabian said he survived because he remained in the background as much as possible. He added that the Germans used him as a translator because he spoke fluent Russian, Hungarian and German. At Auschwitz, Fabian said, 1,050 Hungarian Jewish boys, all of them intelligent and ranging age from 14 to 15, were taken in trucks to the gas house and crematory. Some of them cried, Fabian related, but one of them, a lawyer's son, climbed atop the truck and said: "Brothers, we should not cry, because we are dying for the betterment of mankind." At the last minute, he said, a new order came through that only 1,000 of the group should be killed, so 50 temporarily escaped death. Ezratty said he was among 45,- 000 Jews taken to Auschwitz from Salonika, Greece, and that onLy between 50 and 60 of them still are alive. "Not Badly Wounded," Yank Writes Mother | Claims Nazis Killed Five Million Jews Erfurt, Bela Fabian, Hungarian politician and author who described himself as one of the few survivors of nazis' great plant at Oswicim (Auschwitz), Polish Silesia, interviewers Wednesday that 5,000,000 Jews from many European countries had been gassed and cremated there in a 10- month period. Unnerved by his ordeal, Fabian was interviewed here after his lease by American soldiers from camp south o of Gotha to which he had been recently transferred. (Auschwitz is the German name for Oswicim, a town in southwestern already known as the site perhaps the nazis' largest plant for the killing of great numbers of persons, chiefly Jews. Some previous estimates of deaths at Oswicim have run into the millions, but as far as can- be learned immediately none was quite SO high as Fabian's. The dispatch, still incomplete, did not show so far upon what authority Fabian based his figures. There were less than 10,000,000 Jews in all Europe, according to standard reference By THOBURN WIANT Near Germany, (AP)-Dr. books). Fabian said the 5,000,000 murdered at Auschwitz included Jews from Belgium, Holland, France, Poland, Russia, Hungary and Greece. Fabian said he spent 4 months at Auschwitz and then was moved last Oct. 26 to Oranienburg near Berlin because the Germans feared the Russians would overrun the murder plant. After 2 weeks at Oranienburg, Fabian was shifted to Ohrdruf, south of Gotha, where he remained until he was liberated by the Americans. Three others liberated from the concentration camp here, Heinz Meyer, 22, a Hungarian violinist, Desider Kohlmann, 34 year-old Bratislavan, and Sam Ezratty, 28- year-old Greek medical student. They said it was a miracle that Fabian survived. All Jews over 50 were automatically gassed and cremated, but the Germans believed Fabian when he insisted he was only 46. Fabian, who asked that his friend, Rep. Sol. Bloom (D.-N. Y.) be notified of his safety, explained that his party of approximately 60,000 members was dissolved by the Hungarian government at the insistence of the Germans 3 years ago. Fabian said the Auschwitz butchery was run by an officer who, with a dramatic flourish of a hand, would order entire groups or parts of groups cremated without questioning or ex• amining any of them. "Everyone 50 was automatically gassed," Fabian said. "Everyone weak or sickly autothematically was gassed. And if the captain did not like the looks of anyone else, they were gassed too." "Young mothers, although healthy, were gassed if they refused to leave their children." A hundred thousand children were brought into Auschwitz while Fabian was there. He said 50 were kept as runners and messengers, while all the other 99,950 were gassed and cremated. Fabian declared 3,400 persons in the Ohrdruf concentration camp died in the past 4 months due to over work, lack of food and beatings. The Germans made men work so hard that even the strongest broke down in 6 weeks, Fabian said. When the Americans reached the vicinity of Ohrdruf, the Germans dug up the bodies of their victims, poured oil on them, but IDEAL FOR LUNCH A BAKED ASPARAGUS ROYAL MADE WITH BLUE * STAR POTATO CHIPS Recipe in Place layer of cooked asparagus of casserole. Cover with layer crumbled BLUE STAR Potato Chips and layer of sliced hardboiled eggs. Cover with grated cheese and repeat. Add 1 can cream of mushroom soup. Top with grated cheese and crumbled chips. Bake 30 minutes at 350%; BLUE STAR Potato Chips Fresh or your money back Tuesday where he of years. to be born Stortz, a New Hampton Pvt. Maurice Condon, 20 year old New Hampton paratrooper, informed his mother, Mrs. John Condon, that he was wounded and in a hospital. Pvt. Condon said that he assumed that the war department had informed his mother that he was missing and he wished to notify her he was not badly wounded. 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