In mid-1943, Horst Pilarzik was made adjutant to the third camp commandant, SS-Hauptsturmführer Amon Göth. How else would a Krakow SS man have got hold of such clothes at that time? She suspects they belonged to prisoners in Plaszow or Auschwitz.
Good quality children's boots, good warm coats," she says. "He brought children's clothes and shoes as gifts for my young father, who wore them. She remembers hearing about clothes Horst distributed to relatives in Gliwice during the war. These days, Christiane Falge is a university professor. Read more: A German town and Josef Mengele, Auschwitz 'angel of death' 2,000 people died, and 1,500 were sent to Auschwitz. He remained in Krakow, however, and on March 13 he took part in the liquidation of the ghetto. At the beginning of 1943 he was replaced by SS-Oberscharführer Franz Josef Müller. Pilarzik was only in charge of the camp for a few weeks. Testifying after the war about German criminals in Krakow, Pemper remarked that there was "nothing good to be said about Pilarzik." According to Pemper's official report at the time, Pilarzik's justification for this was that he had only recently graduated from the SS training school and it was the first time in his life he had seen so many Jews. Pilarzik was said to have shot dead a group of Jews as they returned to the ghetto after work. He remembers a man the whole ghetto feared.
Mieczyslaw Pemper, a member of the Judenrat - the Jewish council appointed by the Germans - was a prisoner in the Plaszow camp.
The junior officer had previously been a member of the elite SS unit "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler." In Plaszow, he supervised a group of about 200 workers who left the ghetto each day to remove gravestones and build the camp barracks. A young SS-Unterscharführer, Horst Pilarzik, was appointed camp commander. Read more: Poland's forgotten victims of Nazism Horst Pilarzik was a regular at well-heeled establishments and events in Frankfurt Image: privatĪfter the deportations from the Krakow Ghetto in October 1942, the German occupying forces set up a labor camp on the site of two Jewish cemeteries in Krakow's Plaszow district. We were always told that we must never reveal that his name was Horst Pilarzik we weren't allowed to say that he was part of our family," she remembers. They played along with this game of hide-and-seek. "The whole family knew that Burkhart wasn't his real name. She herself never met him he died five years before she was born. Born in 1970, she was the one who decided to oppose her family and bring the story of Horst Burkhart to light. There was something not right there," recalls Christiane Falge, Jochen's daughter. The way people talked about him was so strange. "The name Horst had been buzzing around me ever since I was a child. Whenever Christiane asks him if he knows that Horst sent hundreds, if not thousands, of Jews to Auschwitz, he always responds automatically: "Really? That's terrible," sounding surprised every time. He seems, in his old age, to have completely repressed his memories of Horst. "Oh, Chrissie, that was so long ago," he says. His daughter Christiane encourages him, but he pleads forgetfulness. Many years later, Jochen is reluctant to talk about these meetings. Jochen and Horst get along well they often meet in Frankfurt in the evening and go to a bar.
Horst is rich he surrounds himself with attractive women, takes them out on yachting trips. The young passenger is his nephew, Jochen, who is probably suitably impressed.
#Sought say. against tormentor. they shot driver#
The driver of the car is Horst Burkhart, a hotel manager, aged about 40. These are the years of the German economic miracle. Shoppers are busy indulging their lust for consumption in the crowded pedestrian zones. In the city center, the tall buildings herald a new dawn. It's the late 1950s the Mercedes races down the wide streets of a freshly reconstructed Frankfurt am Main. The driver signals to him to get in, and they speed off. A sporty Mercedes with a handsome man at the wheel pulls up at the sidewalk.
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