Testimony of Abram-Berl Sokol, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau Murder of Jews by a shot in the back of their necks art the entrance to the gas chambers in Birkenau, 1944; burning of the murder victims' bodies; murder of Karl, the Kapo, by Jewish inmates from Wysokie Mazowieckie as revenge for his abuse [of inmates], Sukkot (early October) 1944; arrival in Auschwitz of rich Jews from Warsaw in anticipation of their being transferred abroad, autumn 1944; snatching of a gun from a German by a woman at the crematorium [should be: at the gas chamber]; shooting and killing of the German by the woman; the woman's suicide by shooting; abuse of the Jews by Eliezer Greenboim, the Kapo, in order to ingratiate himself to the Germans; burning of Torah scrolls, prayer shawls and Tefilin which were brought to Auschwitz; beating Jews to death with sticks in the Strafkommando (penal) block.