'the bookkeeper of Auschwitz'

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Holocaust survivor reduces 'the bookkeeper of Auschwitz' to tears as she confronts him at his trial and reveals how she saw her parents sent to their deaths in the gas chambers

Kathleen Zahavi, 86 (left), who lost 100 family members in Auschwitz, was speaking at the trial of Oskar Groening, 93 (right), who is accused of being complicit in the murders of 300,000 camp victims in 1944. Mrs Zahavi told the court of the moment she arrived at the camp, and was separated from her mother and aunt. When she later asked where they were, a guard pointed to a plume of smoke and said 'there are your parents'. Mrs Zahavi, who now lives in Canada, said she travelled to the court 'because it is the last thing I can do for my dead family.' Groening an S.S. officer at the camp (inset), broke down in tears as she spoke and was unable to look at her.