Auschwitz photographer still sees images (60 years later, prisoner talks of horrors)

CNN ^ | March 4, 2006

[Calpernia]

...a prisoner from Gdansk named Zylinski, he fidgeted with his car keys on the table.

"He had a gorgeous tattoo on his back; some artist must have done it for him, because paradise was done so beautifully. Adam and Eve, a tree of paradise, and Eve handing Adam an apple. It was really beautiful, and done in two colors, blue and red."

"Some time later, maybe a month, word came from the crematorium, from a friend who worked at the crematorium, that he had something interesting to show. I saw it," he said, his voice catching.

"The skin was cut out from the back of the prisoner. They cut out the whole piece, and kept the piece of skin, and tanned it."

It was done on the orders of SS camp doctors, Brasse said.