MME. VAILLANT-COUTURIER: Right next to our camp, on the other side of
the barbed wires, 3 meters apart, there were two camps; one for Gypsies,
which towards August 1944 was completely gassed. These Gypsies came from
all parts of Europe including Germany. Likewise on the other side there
was the so-called family camp. These were Jews from the Ghetto of
Theresienstadt, who had been brought there and, unlike ourselves, they
had been neither tattooed nor shaved. Their clothes were not taken from
them and they did not have to work. They lived like this for 6 months
and at the end of 6 months the entire family camp, amounting to some
6,000 or 7,000 Jews, was gassed. A few days later other large convoys
again arrived from Theresienstadt with their families and 6 months later
they too were gassed, like the first inmates of the family camp.
M. DUBOST: Would you, Madame, please give us some details as to what you
saw when you were about to leave the camp, and under what circumstances
you left it?
MME. VAILLANT-COUTURIER: We were in quarantine before leaving Auschwitz.