00:00A member of the Jewish Saunderskommando in Auschwitz later recalled how Francesca had
00:04noticed that two men were ogling her, and she launched into what appeared to be a titillating
00:08and seductive striptease dance. The SS men were hypnotized. Francesca undid her garter
00:15and approached Orberscharführer Kwakarnak and removed her heels with a swift move.
00:20She then bent down, grabbed the right shoe, and hit Kwakarnak with the metal end of the heel
00:25right in the nose. His bones crunched. He held with pain, dropped his pistol,
00:31and hid his face in his hands. What happened next later felt like a movie on fast-forward.
00:37Francesca grabbed the gun and fired two shots, wounding Orberscharführer Josef Schillinger in the
00:42stomach. He cried out and fell to the ground. Then she fired a third shot, killing an SS sergeant
00:48named Emerich. The shots also served as a signal for the other women to attack the SS men.
00:53One SS man had his nose torn off, and another was scalped.
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