00:00Shortly after Orlovsky arrived at the camp, she gained a reputation as one of the most feared
00:04guards. She wore an SS men's uniform and a big pistol fixed to her hip. Orlovsky also carried
00:11on her a powerful whip with a hard handle, flexible at the end, with which she beat prisoners.
00:17According to Jan Wozniak, a political prisoner who served at the camp from February 1942
00:22till January 1943, Orlovsky would often approach her victims from the back by surprise. When she
00:29noticed someone break off work, even for a second, she immediately beat and tortured the victim.
00:34Wozniak witnessed firsthand as Orlovsky in some cases tortured prisoners to the point that they
00:39died from the blows that she dealt them. There were around 150 such cases over the said period.
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