The survivors of Auschwitz in the International Auschwitz Committee are following the prosecutor’s investigations against the SS volunteer Oskar Gröning with little hope of justice. He has been declared fit to stand trial in Lüneburg under the allegation of being an accessory to murder in the cases of at least 300,000 people.

“This is all coming decades too late. The accused person has spent the most important decades of his life in peace and freedom within society. As in the cases of others, we have never heard any words of remorse, regret or apology from him. His hands too bear the blood of thousands of innocent Jewish people whose suitcases he sorted on the ramp in Birkenau and whose money he meticulously counted with cold greed and transferred as plunder for Germany,” stressed Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, during a visit to the Auschwitz Memorial.

And in Budapest, the now over 90-year-old Auschwitz survivor, Eva Pusztai, added: “I am one of the joint plaintiffs in the case that will hopefully be brought to court. In the past Germany has bitterly disappointed us as far as the justice we deserve is concerned. The very thought that the accused man rummaged through the suitcases that my weeping mother had packed, and that he fingered the clothes of my little sister Gilike, who was murdered that same day, simply makes me despair. One day I want to stand in a German court of law and say what I have seen.”