94-year-old Auschwitz survivor testifies against guard

A 94-year-old survivor of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz death camp has testified in court, face to face with a former guard who is charged with helping in the murder of at least 170,000 people.

Leon Schwarzbaum, who lost 35 family members during the Holocaust, calmly recalled the camp’s horrors and when he had finished he directly addressed the accused, Reinhold Hanning, also 94, on the first day of his trial.

“I want to know why millions of Jews were killed and here we both are,” Mr Schwarzbaum said, his voice beginning to tremble.