"SS was standing all around the camp. And they would, uh, not only beat you and abuse you, but if they felt like it, you--they would grab--you had some kind of a...of a head covering, because you could not go in the winter there without a hat or a cap or some kind of a...even a piece of rag to cover--they would grab your head covering and throw it and say, "Mach schnell [Fast!]--hurry up, take, get...get your cap." And as you went to get your cap they would shoot you. And then they would write down on the report, 'Shot while trying to escape'" ("Stutthof - Oral History).
-Leo Kutner, Camp Stutthof survivor, 1991
-Leo Kutner, Camp Stutthof survivor, 1991