Auschwitz survivors testify at trial

Three survivors spoke of the smell of burnt bodies and piles of dead people at Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz camp at the trial of a former guard accused of helping in the murder of at least 170,000 people.

“If your ribs were visible, you were a candidate for the crematorium,” said Leon Schwarzbaum, 94, a survivor who lost 35 family members in the Holocaust.

He was speaking on the second day of the trial of Reinhold Hanning, also 94, who remained largely silent .