'Get up you bastard!': JOSEF LEWKOWICZ recalls how he tracked down and confronted Amon Goeth, the Nazi butcher immortalised in Schindler's List, after witnessing his unspeakable cruelty first hand
I would have recognised him anywhere. It was Amon Goeth. He was haggard, and had lost a lot of weight, but I knew that cruel face only too well. It was the last thing that so many people in Plaszow had seen before they met their end.
I was boiling inside, and lost control, kicking and punching him in a flurry of all-consuming rage. 'Get up you bastard!' I screamed. 'You bastard, you damn shit!'
He showed no sign of comprehending who I was. Not surprising, since the military policeman spitting in his face wore a white helmet and was well fed.
The last time we had been in close contact, I was just another emaciated victim of his brutality.
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