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IV: Heute ist Samstag, der 19. Juli 2014.

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Wir sind in Weiden im Hotel Admira.

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Mein Name ist Michael Aue von der Medienwerkstatt Franken.

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Und ich führe jetzt ein Interview mit Herrn Henry Greenbaum, der in den USA lebt.

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Er wurde am 1. April 1928 in Polen geboren.

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Und zwar in dem Ort Starachowice.

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Und äh, kam unter anderem, nach einem Auftenthalt in Auschwitz, auch nach Flossenbürg.

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Und wurde auf dem Todesmarsch befreit.

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IV:  Well, so let's start ah a little bit ah just ah biographical.

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Where're you born?

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Ah, little bit about your family.

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So d.., just to know, where you are and where the story..

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HG: Okay.

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IV: ..started.

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HG: So you want me to talk?

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IV: Yeah, I want you to, to tell a little bit about your..

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HG: I thought you gonna just ask me questions {laughing}, okay.

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IV:  Ah, yeah, so, just a.., my questions are there ah t.., to make you..

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HG: Okay.

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IV: ..talk {laughing}.

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HG: I c.., I come from a family of nine children.

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We had six girls and three boys.

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We were ah, I come from Poland.

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Ah and I was born April 1st 1928.

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I was the youngest of the nine children.

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And of course we had a normal upbringing.

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I went to public school.

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I went to Hebrew school.

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And play games with other children.

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Like a normal life.

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But of course, when the German army took over then it was a little bit different.

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They right away, it didn't take them too long.

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I don't know how long it was.

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We wound up in a ghetto in the old city, in Starochowice.

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We stayed in there for two years.

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From '40 to October '42 we stayed in the ghetto {clicking his tongue}.

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And then they decided to have a selection.

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They took, the selection was to take away the old, very young, handicapped, pregnant women, women with children.

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And ah all they left, able were the people for work.

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We, my family, we also had family's store in my town.

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We had IDs that we worked in the factories.

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I was not quite twelve years old.

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But I already worked in the ammunition factory.

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For the ah, for the Polish, ah, when they ordered.

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And when the German army came in, of course we had IDs so we were saved.

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And then they took those people away when they had the selection.

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They took them to Treblinka.

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Nothing but a killing center.

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My mum went there.

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My two married sisters went there with three ah little nieces and two nephews.

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They all were there, but I never could find them after the war.

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We were asking, looking for them. And they told us not to look for them, the, that they lost their lifes in Treblinka.

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IV: Treblinka {whispering}. One? So just, yeah, come in, come in.

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And the people who were able to work?

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HG: Okay, we stayed there and I was left with three single sisters.

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And we all had IDs that we work in the ammunition factory.

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In fact, the older one of the girls wound up in a tailor's shop.

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She ah because that was our business in...

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We had a tailor d..shop.

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So the girls knew how to sew.

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This one volunteered to be a tailor after and, after work in the ammunition factory.

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But the others, we worked, we came to work three shifts a day.

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Seven to three, from three to eleven, from eleven to seven in the morning.

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Every week changed the three shifts.

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And we were in this ghetto.

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And the ghetto, the only good thing in the ghetto is, the family was together, intact.

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But when they had the selection, of course, they broke up the family.

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My father died two months before the war.

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IV: Mhm {confirming}. And, so you stood in the ghetto at, but the..

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CM: Moment.

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IV: Yeah. Outside of the ghetto.

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HG: The work?

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IV: The, yeah, the work.

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HG: Ah, was outside the ghetto, right, it was a factory.

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Not to far away distant from the ghetto.

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We were able to walk every day.

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And the order was, that to come out of the ghetto, is the ones to show the guards the ID.

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And we were lining up for work.

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And all of us marched out at the same time.

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We came back at the same time.

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And we stayed there like I said till October '42.

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And then when they had the selection, after the selection they didn't return us to the ghetto.

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They built for us a slave labor camp.

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On the top of a stone quarry.

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With six foot fence wires, not electric just barbed wire.

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And the guards, and the dogs, and the tower.

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And they had floodlight.

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And we continued for another year to stay there.

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And we worked there.

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Then from the being, from the dirt, from the filth, we never changed our cloth.

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We never got washed.

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We became lice infested.

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And lice breed typhoid sickness.

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And that broke out while we were there in the slave labor camp.

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A very contagious sickness.

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And we were staying in such close quarters, like three guys slept on one bunk.

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Then maybe seventy-five inches wide.

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So, if one caught it, the next will definitely gonna catch it.

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But the only thing is if someone was, had high fever.

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That high, they could, you could do nothing.

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You couldn't even stand on your feet.

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Middle fewer, low fewer, you can go to work.

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You're slow a little bit, but you can go to work.

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But if you didn't line up for work, they went to look for the rest of them.

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Because every morning we lined up in the front of the barrack to send us off to work.

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If the night shift come back, they wouldn't let them in yet.

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Until they send the day shift out.

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So, if somebody was missing, they went inside the barrack to look for them.

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And if they found them, there was a pick-up truck.

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I think it was the Einsatzgruppen.

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I'm not sure.

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But it was a special unit who came by with a little truck.

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And they put the sick people and they took them away to the outskirt sort of town.

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They killed them there.

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And they all had one grave.

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And we dug those trenches for them, for the army, for the German army.

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And they told us that that was for the military, for the tanks to fall in.

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Whether theyy were six feet by four feet..

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I don't remember how deep we were digging.

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And they used those trenches for the people with typhoid.

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They shot them into the ditch, naked first.

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I didn't see it.

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I was not there.

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But I was told that ah people who investigated from the farmers around with, who were there.

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Because the farmers took the cloth.

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IV: Yeah.

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HG: And they shot them naked and throw, they went into the ditch.

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I lost a sister who died of typhoid.

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And then the old middle sister, they took her, she didn't line up for work.

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And we didn't know where they take those people.

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We thought they're taken for hospital.

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Or they take them to another, a ki.. o.. another camp or another ghetto.

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We didn't know what they were doing.

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Until after the war we found out.

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So at the end, I was left.

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One sister was, ah died of typhoid.

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And one the, I think it was the Einsatzgruppe that came to pick them up.

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Any barrack to barrack, it was ah, the truck was full.

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They would take them to the outskirts of the town.

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And they would shoot them there.

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And I lost two, so I had one more.

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So we heard rumors from the tailor shop.

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The high ranking officer came into the tailor shop and told those tailors to hurry up with those uniforms,

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"because such-and-such date all of you gonna be deported out of here."

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And it was already almost '44, 1944.

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IV: Yeah.

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HG: So these tailors didn't know what it meant, that we are gonna be deported.

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They thought, "they are gonna probably kill us and now they don't need us anymore."

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Although we helped them for three years with the war machinery.

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Whether it was a tailor or ammunition, what ever.

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And then, and then they decided that they came.

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And ah not everyone knew about the escape, just a few.

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Most of all the tailors.

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And then who their relatives were or friends.

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And they organized a certain group.

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And the day my sister that I had left over the one she had..

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A middle fewer, but she can go to work everyday.

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She told me the night before, when I come back from my shift, from the factory:

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"Do not go into the barrack.

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Wait for me outside."

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So I obeyed that order.

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And she came by to follow.. I had my shift from three to eleven.

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So I, I never went into the barrack.

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I stayed for her outside.

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And it was pitch-dark.

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She came by with a Jewish policeman.

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Whether she befriended him, I don't know the answer.

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She held us hands, her hand.

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And she grabbed my hand, all through we were running.

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And there was a, a barbed wire fence first.

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And the second fence was a wooden fence.

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When we came to the wooden fence to break it out, it made a little more noise than the clippers cut the wires.

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And the guards and the shepherd, shepherd dogs.

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Very alert, very alert dogs, they were growling and barking.

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So, the guard flipped the lights on, to see what was wrong.

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And they saw people were running out.

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And he just tried to kill as many as he could.

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Some wounded.

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And I was not, and I was about maybe ten feet away with the policeman and my sister.

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And once he put the lights on, he started shooting at us, too.

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We, and then that, the bullet grazed me on the back of my head.

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And knocked me out.

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When I awoke a few seconds later,

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I was yelling for my sister Faiga and I could not find her.

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And I never would run towards the hole, where they cut the hole out.

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So I decided to stay an.., and look for her.

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And I could not find her.

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But the women's barrack was in the opposite direction.

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Where the hole was cut through.

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So I decided to run for that.

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I lowered my head, bleeding furiously.

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And I ran there, and I came into the women's barrack.

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And the woman didn't let me in.

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It was a Jewish woman.

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From my town, she knew me and I knew her.

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She would not let me in.

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I said: "I wanna see my sister Fagia."

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"She is not here.

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Get out of here.

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You gonna get us all killed."

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I said: "How am I gonna get you killed?

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I have no weapons, how am I gonna kill you?"

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Anyway, we were fighting back and forth.

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I decided to sit in the doorway.

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And she could not close the door.

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And the guards upstairs on the tower were very angry that people were running out.

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And then, at one point they stopped running.

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And when they saw what's happening, the lights were up already.

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So they started shooting into the barracks.

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And they came in, a few bullets came into the barrack.

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And the women jumped off the bu.., the ah the bunks.

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And on the floor they went.

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Then I had eye contact with everyone of them, looking for my sister.

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I didn't believe the woman, told me my sister was not here.

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So I sits here and I ran into my first cousin Aida.

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They, her mum and my mum were sisters.

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She says: "What happened to you?"

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And I say: "I am looking for my sister Fagia."

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She says: "Your sister is not here.

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She is not here.

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I know what bunk she was on.

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She is not here.

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But what happened to you?"

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So I told her, I was injured, but I can't find my sister.

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So she said: "Let me help you with the bleeding."

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And then they stopped shooting anymore.

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So the woman, my cousin had a bucket of water, and, for everybody.

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And we were drinking that water every day in the barracks.

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So she wetted a rag, cleaned me up a little bit.

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And she took a dry rag and put it over the wound.

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She says: "I give you my beret.

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And you wear my beret."

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So the cloth would stay underneath.

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And ah, we had a lot of hair.

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They wouldn't cut our hair.

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And in the ghetto or the slave labor camp in the old town.

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So the women had their long hair.

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And the men had long hair.

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So that's why this lice infestation started.

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Mostly in the hair.

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And so then she just cleaned me up.

242
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And then, I still have to, I don't stay in there.

243
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What if the guards would catch me in there.

244
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They probably would have killed me.

245
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So I decided to sneak out of the women's barrack and I was watching the floodlights.

246
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It was all, it already got dark already.

247
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And the floodlight was going from the hall away and then back.

248
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Comes and goes, back and forth.

249
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And I figured out, I was fifteen years old that time already.

250
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And I said: "I can beat that ah the floodlight."

251
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Until for, starting of, running for this direction.

252
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And I lowered my head and I jumped.

253
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And I ran into my barrack where I belong with the men.

254
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And a few minutes later, the loudspeaker came on.

255
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All, everybody had to go "aus, raus."

256
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And we had to stay in the front of the barrack.

257
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The night shift just came back.

258
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They wouldn't let them in.

259
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They held them between these two sets of fences.

260
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And they started counting each of one in front of each barrack.

261
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Just to get some idea how many people escaped.

262
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So they were counting.

263
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And then there were missings.

264
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So that they would look inside for them, inside the barrack, they were not there.

265
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So that means either they're injured and lie at the hole over there or they escaped.

266
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And then after they get through counting of one of u.. ah each of us,

267
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we had to face the area where the hole was.

268
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And there he took his gun out.

269
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And he killed all the wounded people.

270
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(???)

271
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That were not killed.

272
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The policeman was one of them.

273
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He was sitting in an upright position on the ground.

274
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A white band he had.

275
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He wore his cap.

276
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The special police cap he had, mourning and groaning.

277
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He was hit by a bullet, I don't know where of course.

278
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And then others, he killed all of the wounded ones.

279
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The ones that were alive, breathing or yelling for help.

280
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They just shot all of them.

281
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And then he turned around to us.

282
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And he said: "That's what will happen to you, should you ever try to escape again."

283
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And we went back inside.

284
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And back to normal for a few, two, three months.

285
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And then, they decided that they, of sele..of, the deportation came.

286
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And we were all deported.

287
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They wouldn't let us go to work that twenty-four hour period.

288
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Everybody was in this slave labor camp.

289
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And they struck us on those trains.

290
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And they to.., they took us away.

291
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With no water, no bathroom for three, four days we traveled.

292
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At the end of the travelling, we wound up in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

293
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And the trains open up.

294
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The doors opened up.

295
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And the well dressed, the uniform guys, ah German army was standing there with their dog and they were directing traffic.

296
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Like ah, what the reason there was, I don't know.

297
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They had a selection again.

298
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Left, right, left, right.

299
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They sent me on the good side.

300
00:16:30.333 --> 00:16:33.599
And we, we didn't know what the other bad side is.

301
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Until a few days later.

302
00:16:35.300 --> 00:16:41.966
We were told by other inmates that that part of the group was gased the day they came.

303
00:16:41.967 --> 00:16:44.999
They either didn't have enough room for everyone.

304
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Or they had an order how many they need to dispose of.

305
00:16:48.667 --> 00:16:49.932
We were lucky.

306
00:16:49.933 --> 00:16:52.599
My, my group that was saved were lucky.

307
00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:55.499
The first thing we got is a number on our arm.

308
00:16:55.500 --> 00:16:57.099
The first thing.

309
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If I can open this up here.

310
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And I am glad to show you

311
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There is a number here: A, eighteen, nine, nine, one.

312
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That was my number.

313
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And by the way, I met a gentleman last night at the, at the Flossenbürg reunion there.

314
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He had his number here.

315
00:17:15.600 --> 00:17:19.332
And I think his number was pretty much close with mine.

316
00:17:19.333 --> 00:17:24.499
So we were there at the same, almost at the same time.

317
00:17:24.500 --> 00:17:25.999
So, we wound up here.

318
00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:30.132
We stayed only about a few months in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

319
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And a well... German man came in, a civilian.

320
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Well-dressed man.

321
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Well I, I admired his clothes.

322
00:17:38.633 --> 00:17:40.832
He had a, a straw hat.

323
00:17:40.833 --> 00:17:46.266
He had a three piece outfit, with a vest, a, a gold watch with a chain.

324
00:17:46.267 --> 00:17:47.866
That's how I observed that guy.

325
00:17:47.867 --> 00:17:49.432
That guy is still on my mind.

326
00:17:49.433 --> 00:17:51.666
Because he sort of saved my life.

327
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It was, we didn't know that.

328
00:17:53.500 --> 00:17:54.999
He ordered that barrack..

329
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He had two guards with him and a dog.

330
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And they, the guards went in.

331
00:17:58.533 --> 00:18:00.799
They chased everybody out of the barrack.

332
00:18:00.800 --> 00:18:04.266
And that civilian German picked who ever he want.

333
00:18:04.267 --> 00:18:06.499
But we didn't know what he is picking us for.

334
00:18:06.500 --> 00:18:10.532
He took, I don't know, approximately I would say fifty of us.

335
00:18:10.533 --> 00:18:15.332
And he marched us out of ah Birkenau-Auschwitz.

336
00:18:15.333 --> 00:18:18.999
Either by truck or by foot, I don't remember it positively.

337
00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:23.799
And he put us near Buna-Monowitz a subcamp of Auschwitz.

338
00:18:23.800 --> 00:18:31.066
And that man was either an owner or manager of the IG Farben Company.

339
00:18:31.067 --> 00:18:34.666
And the job that he would've done in the IG

340
00:18:34.667 --> 00:18:39.399
is to build the road or a part of a road

341
00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:41.566
with cobbled stones and sidewalks.

342
00:18:41.567 --> 00:18:45.266
And this, that was already in 1945 of course.

343
00:18:45.267 --> 00:18:49.766
And the war was already starting to sort of ease up a little bit.

344
00:18:49.767 --> 00:18:54.899
And then we used to, then the United States bombed IG at that time.

345
00:18:54.900 --> 00:18:59.232
They sent us over to some other place and bombed the IG factory.

346
00:18:59.233 --> 00:19:04.666
The rail mostly in the beginning, that led into the IG.

347
00:19:04.667 --> 00:19:09.666
And then of course at the end they knocked out the whole factory.

348
00:19:09.667 --> 00:19:12.666
So they put us on trains again.

349
00:19:12.667 --> 00:19:16.832
And we rode to, deeper into Germany.

350
00:19:16.833 --> 00:19:20.666
We went to Austria, we went to Czechoslovakia.

351
00:19:20.667 --> 00:19:28.332
And then the, ah the ah, the ah airforce got very aggressive.

352
00:19:28.333 --> 00:19:30.266
And they knocked out the whole rail.

353
00:19:30.267 --> 00:19:33.166
In some places they knocked out the lokomotive.

354
00:19:33.167 --> 00:19:36.932
And then at the end was, they divided us in different groups.

355
00:19:36.933 --> 00:19:38.666
I don't know how many in the march.

356
00:19:38.667 --> 00:19:41.666
About two hundred, a hundred I don't remember that.

357
00:19:41.667 --> 00:19:45.066
All I know we had two guards and two dogs.

358
00:19:45.067 --> 00:19:47.666
Regarding (???) we started marching.

359
00:19:47.667 --> 00:19:54.832
I think, I am not sur.., positive, but I'm, I will be investigating most of today in Flossenbürg.

360
00:19:54.833 --> 00:19:57.099
That is my first time back.

361
00:19:57.100 --> 00:20:03.732
So, the oth.., these gentlemen I have talked to, thought that was not the day that we arrived here.

362
00:20:03.733 --> 00:20:06.099
It was, we were doing the work

363
00:20:06.100 --> 00:20:11.832
We finally had to march in for a couple of miles to the camp.

364
00:20:11.833 --> 00:20:15.499
Because of the rail system, the trains didn't go and that's how far they went.

365
00:20:15.500 --> 00:20:18.332
And they knocked them out too, the lokomotive.

366
00:20:18.333 --> 00:20:21.166
So we wound up in Flossenbürg.

367
00:20:21.167 --> 00:20:28.099
And there, in Flossenbürg, which for me was just another camp, same bunks, the same food.

368
00:20:28.100 --> 00:20:31.832
The only thing, that we didn't have to go to a factory to work.

369
00:20:31.833 --> 00:20:34.866
I thought, this man would disagree with me.

370
00:20:34.867 --> 00:20:35.832
He said something else.

371
00:20:35.833 --> 00:20:43.332
He said, he stayed in ah, in, like in a, in a office or, or a factory of some kind.

372
00:20:43.333 --> 00:20:46.899
I remember only bundling up clothing.

373
00:20:46.900 --> 00:20:53.166
It was a story high of cloth from people who were wearing, who were murdered.

374
00:20:53.167 --> 00:20:56.999
And I don't know whether that was people only from Flossenbürg.

375
00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:00.799
Or was, was that the depot where they brought all the clothing in there?

376
00:21:00.800 --> 00:21:02.166
That I am not sure.

377
00:21:02.167 --> 00:21:04.766
But we were separating clothing.

378
00:21:04.767 --> 00:21:09.599
Bundling up coats, shoes, pants bundling up.

379
00:21:09.600 --> 00:21:14.499
And then they, I guess they shipped them back to Germany for recycling I guess.

380
00:21:14.500 --> 00:21:18.966
And I was in Flossenbürg maybe another six months or so.

381
00:21:18.967 --> 00:21:23.166
And then, the American army, we thought that was the Russian army,

382
00:21:23.167 --> 00:21:29.666
because, being close to the Czech border we wouldn't think that Americans would come there.

383
00:21:29.667 --> 00:21:33.999
But the American army was coming to liberate Flossenbürg.

384
00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:38.332
And three days before that, that the ah, the ah,

385
00:21:38.333 --> 00:21:44.332
German army or the Nazis or the, or the soldiers, they put us on trains again.

386
00:21:44.333 --> 00:21:46.999
They took us in, deeper into Germany.

387
00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:50.932
So, we were never got off the train, except in one spot,

388
00:21:50.933 --> 00:21:54.466
we went to Austria, Czechoslovakia, Bavaria, Germany.

389
00:21:54.467 --> 00:21:55.799
Just riding around

390
00:21:55.800 --> 00:21:57.466
Some of them had open trains.

391
00:21:57.467 --> 00:22:00.999
Mostly the women had open trains in those days already.

392
00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:02.866
You know, half open.

393
00:22:02.867 --> 00:22:11.166
And then we travelled through, then the ah, the ah Russian, the American airforce got very aggressive again.

394
00:22:11.167 --> 00:22:13.666
And they knocked out eventually the whole system.

395
00:22:13.667 --> 00:22:16.499
So they started to march us.

396
00:22:16.500 --> 00:22:19.899
How many of us was in the march, I don't really recall.

397
00:22:19.900 --> 00:22:26.166
But I know we were marching from middle of February to the 25th of April.

398
00:22:26.167 --> 00:22:27.999
Just marching, marching, marching.

399
00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:29.499
IV: Every day?

400
00:22:29.500 --> 00:22:30.266
HG: Then, ev.., the guards..

401
00:22:30.267 --> 00:22:31.999
IV: At night time or day time?

402
00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:34.532
HG: Mostly day time. Never marched us at night.

403
00:22:34.533 --> 00:22:35.199
IV: Yeah.

404
00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:37.366
HG: At night we stayed in the woods, covered up.

405
00:22:37.367 --> 00:22:41.299
Stayed there and the dogs were guarding us with the guards.

406
00:22:41.300 --> 00:22:47.332
And then, at the ah 24th of April, the day before liberation,

407
00:22:47.333 --> 00:22:51.432
before that, the guards didn't have any supplies with them either.

408
00:22:51.433 --> 00:22:52.899
They were hungry too.

409
00:22:52.900 --> 00:22:55.899
But they located a farm, while we were marching.

410
00:22:55.900 --> 00:22:59.632
And they used to go to the farm and have themselves a good meal.

411
00:22:59.633 --> 00:23:01.999
And the dogs I'm sure ate good {laughing}.

412
00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:05.832
And we were allowed only one raw potato.

413
00:23:05.833 --> 00:23:10.699
For the farmer, they gave us one raw potato and some water to drink.

414
00:23:10.700 --> 00:23:13.199
And we didn't have water f.., for months.

415
00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:15.299
It was two months at least.

416
00:23:15.300 --> 00:23:18.299
We were drinking water out of the creek.

417
00:23:18.300 --> 00:23:21.499
With anyway, it was 24th they brought us into a farm.

418
00:23:21.500 --> 00:23:23.999
It was the day before liberation.

419
00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:28.599
And all of a sudden they put us into this silo, where they keep the hay.

420
00:23:28.600 --> 00:23:30.832
And some animals were right there.

421
00:23:30.833 --> 00:23:37.066
And we thought that once they put us in there, they'll make, ah light a match and burn us all up.

422
00:23:37.067 --> 00:23:37.999
But they didn't.

423
00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:39.166
The dogs were outside.

424
00:23:39.167 --> 00:23:41.599
Two dogs were outside laying on the ground.

425
00:23:41.600 --> 00:23:44.832
Watching us, watching us being on the inside.

426
00:23:44.833 --> 00:23:49.532
But we were that time drenched wet from the April showers.

427
00:23:49.533 --> 00:23:52.332
We came in and we took our uniforms off.

428
00:23:52.333 --> 00:23:53.699
Striped uniforms.

429
00:23:53.700 --> 00:23:58.332
Because before we wore regular clothes for three years from home yet.

430
00:23:58.333 --> 00:24:03.399
Never clean, never, that's why the lice in the hair, we got infested there.

431
00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:08.099
But they, that was, we didn't get cleaned up until we got to Auschwitz.

432
00:24:08.100 --> 00:24:10.432
Where we got the number, we finally got our hair cut.

433
00:24:10.433 --> 00:24:11.999
We finally got a shower.

434
00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:14.732
When I arrived at ah Birkenau.

435
00:24:14.733 --> 00:24:22.399
But anyway that day, that day the 24th of April, we were in that place where the hay is, the silo.

436
00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:25.199
And in the morning, they woke us up early in the morning.

437
00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:26.832
We put back our clothes on.

438
00:24:26.833 --> 00:24:28.532
They were not quite dry.

439
00:24:28.533 --> 00:24:31.266
But, they were okay, they were not too bad.

440
00:24:31.267 --> 00:24:33.066
We didn't have any underwear or socks.

441
00:24:33.067 --> 00:24:36.832
All we had is the, the cap, the jacket, pants.

442
00:24:36.833 --> 00:24:42.499
Wooden-bottomed shoes with canvas stubs on them, to tie up.

443
00:24:42.500 --> 00:24:44.332
And that was our uniform.

444
00:24:44.333 --> 00:24:48.166
And then they always..., they woke us up early in the morning.

445
00:24:48.167 --> 00:24:51.732
And we only marched for two hours, near a wooded area.

446
00:24:51.733 --> 00:24:56.632
And it was pretty much close to Neunburg vorm Wald.

447
00:24:56.633 --> 00:24:58.499
In the woods in the area.

448
00:24:58.500 --> 00:25:03.999
And all of a sudden, while we saw a lot of commotion on a highway, a lot of equipment.

449
00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:06.599
But we didn't know whom the equipment was.

450
00:25:06.600 --> 00:25:08.166
Who did it belong to?

451
00:25:08.167 --> 00:25:11.299
Because we didn't know the marking on the equipment.

452
00:25:11.300 --> 00:25:12.666
So we thought it was German army.

453
00:25:12.667 --> 00:25:14.166
We didn't know who it was.

454
00:25:14.167 --> 00:25:20.166
But all of a sudden the two guards, while we were resting, all of a sudden disappeared.

455
00:25:20.167 --> 00:25:21.999
They took off with their dog.

456
00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:24.566
And they left us by ourselves.

457
00:25:24.567 --> 00:25:28.866
And after that we were kind of hu.., angry, because they left us.

458
00:25:28.867 --> 00:25:30.499
Anybody can kill us now.

459
00:25:30.500 --> 00:25:33.866
Although they would, probably were closest to kill us.

460
00:25:33.867 --> 00:25:36.599
But they were afraid to fire a gun.

461
00:25:36.600 --> 00:25:38.632
Because it makes a lot of noise.

462
00:25:38.633 --> 00:25:40.666
And those two guards didn't wanna get caught.

463
00:25:40.667 --> 00:25:41.832
I'm just guessing.

464
00:25:41.833 --> 00:25:45.832
These two guards didn't wanna get caught by the American army.

465
00:25:45.833 --> 00:25:48.399
So, they ran away from us.

466
00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:50.066
Probably got into a farm.

467
00:25:50.067 --> 00:25:51.466
Took their uniform off.

468
00:25:51.467 --> 00:25:53.299
Put civilian clothes on.

469
00:25:53.300 --> 00:25:55.599
They're just another person.

470
00:25:55.600 --> 00:26:01.599
And then, all of a sudden, while we sat there, a tank appeared from the main highway towards us.

471
00:26:01.600 --> 00:26:03.999
F.., by five, ten feet away.

472
00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:05.366
The hatch opened up.

473
00:26:05.367 --> 00:26:11.332
And this beautiful American soldier came out of the hatch, put his hands on his mouth.

474
00:26:11.333 --> 00:26:16.599
And he says: "We are Americans and all of you are free."

475
00:26:16.600 --> 00:26:18.166
IV: Did you understand english?

476
00:26:18.167 --> 00:26:21.999
HG: We had somebody in that group that spoke english.

477
00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.832
But we knew what "free" meant.

478
00:26:24.833 --> 00:26:29.999
And "we are Americans", "American" is almost an international word. "American."

479
00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:32.532
And I had a sister living in America.

480
00:26:32.533 --> 00:26:34.899
She came here before the war.

481
00:26:34.900 --> 00:26:39.466
Because I only gave you ah the description of five sisters.

482
00:26:39.467 --> 00:26:43.499
The one that went to America in 1937.

483
00:26:43.500 --> 00:26:46.032
So I knew, I had somebody still alive.

484
00:26:46.033 --> 00:26:49.499
And some day, with God's help, I will be in America.

485
00:26:49.500 --> 00:26:50.132
And once

486
00:26:50.133 --> 00:26:53.999
the soldier told us that, "We are Americans and you are free."

487
00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:57.166
I said to, to my, to my, to God I said: "Dear God.

488
00:26:57.167 --> 00:27:00.166
Thanks f.., thanks for saving our lives.

489
00:27:00.167 --> 00:27:02.332
But why did it take you so long?"

490
00:27:02.333 --> 00:27:04.666
Five years it took.

491
00:27:04.667 --> 00:27:06.366
I was locked up for five years.

492
00:27:06.367 --> 00:27:09.266
At the age of seventeen I was liberated.

493
00:27:09.267 --> 00:27:13.332
They tell me I weigh like seventy-five kilos or seventy-five pounds.

494
00:27:13.333 --> 00:27:16.666
I don't remember that, but I was told that.

495
00:27:16.667 --> 00:27:22.499
IV: So, what about your physical and also yo.., your mental condition after these five years?

496
00:27:22.500 --> 00:27:23.099
HG: Well, the..

497
00:27:23.100 --> 00:27:24.233
IV: About, during the time?

498
00:27:24.667 --> 00:27:27.766
HG: Well, maybe it helped because I was younger.

499
00:27:27.767 --> 00:27:32.332
And maybe it helped that I knew I had some good life ahead of me yet.

500
00:27:32.333 --> 00:27:35.566
Once I came to ah, once I come to America.

501
00:27:35.567 --> 00:27:37.832
I was looking forward to that.

502
00:27:37.833 --> 00:27:44.866
But while I was in Germany, I ran into, after liberation, and after we had enough food in our system,

503
00:27:44.867 --> 00:27:51.399
we started travelling on trains.

504
00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:51.666
And I took a ride to Bergen-Belsen.

505
00:27:51.667 --> 00:27:58.832
Looking for my m.., married sisters, the one they took away in October '42.

506
00:27:58.833 --> 00:28:00.999
I said, maybe they killed my mum,

507
00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:02.832
she was only fifty-four.

508
00:28:02.833 --> 00:28:04.832
But my sisters were young women.

509
00:28:04.833 --> 00:28:08.599
They had, one had three k.., ah girls, one, two boys.

510
00:28:08.600 --> 00:28:10.132
And I said: "Maybe they killed the cildren?

511
00:28:10.133 --> 00:28:11.666
Maybe the women are alive?"

512
00:28:11.667 --> 00:28:15.299
So I took, ah, a ride to Bergen-Belsen.

513
00:28:15.300 --> 00:28:17.099
And that was the British zone.

514
00:28:17.100 --> 00:28:20.666
They liberated ah Bergen-Belsen.

515
00:28:20.667 --> 00:28:21.399
I went in there.

516
00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:23.732
The soldier told me: "Only three days."

517
00:28:23.733 --> 00:28:27.899
And I told him, "I only need one day, only to look, to see."

518
00:28:27.900 --> 00:28:29.599
And I couldn't find anybody.

519
00:28:29.600 --> 00:28:34.599
Somehow I found this one woman, we were walking and she recognized me.

520
00:28:34.600 --> 00:28:35.932
And I recognized her.

521
00:28:35.933 --> 00:28:39.666
And it was that same cousin who helped me with the wound.

522
00:28:39.667 --> 00:28:44.832
And they, and they ah, in my slave labor camp in Poland.

523
00:28:44.833 --> 00:28:47.332
And she says: "I am going to Poland.

524
00:28:47.333 --> 00:28:49.099
Do you wanna go with me?"

525
00:28:49.100 --> 00:28:51.566
And we had a brother with the Polish Army.

526
00:28:51.567 --> 00:28:53.732
I had one in the Polish Army.

527
00:28:53.733 --> 00:28:56.466
But f.., I didn't know where he was of course.

528
00:28:56.467 --> 00:28:57.832
And she took a ride.

529
00:28:57.833 --> 00:28:59.799
And she went to Łódź, Poland.

530
00:28:59.800 --> 00:29:02.132
It was a Displaced Persons camp.

531
00:29:02.133 --> 00:29:04.666
And she looked for her brother Ramon.

532
00:29:04.667 --> 00:29:09.166
And he knew of my brother, Isakery, who was in the Polish army.

533
00:29:09.167 --> 00:29:13.832
He got caught by the German ah, Gestapo or SS, whoever it was.

534
00:29:13.833 --> 00:29:16.666
And they put him into the Wilno ghetto.

535
00:29:16.667 --> 00:29:18.332
He was in the Wilno ghetto.

536
00:29:18.333 --> 00:29:19.332
For a little while.

537
00:29:19.333 --> 00:29:21.332
Then he was liberated by the Russians.

538
00:29:21.333 --> 00:29:23.399
But then he made it into Germany.

539
00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:25.032
And then to Poland back.

540
00:29:25.033 --> 00:29:29.666
And he wound up in Łódź, Poland, in the Displaced Persons camp.

541
00:29:29.667 --> 00:29:31.799
So, she told him, that I was alive.

542
00:29:31.800 --> 00:29:37.332
And I was in a ca.., in a displaced person camp near Frankfurt am Main.

543
00:29:37.333 --> 00:29:39.332
It was called Zeilsheim.

544
00:29:39.333 --> 00:29:42.999
It was either run by the Jewish organization, the HIAS.

545
00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:49.166
Or maybe the UNRRA, they had a sign, UNRRA. U-N-R-R-A 503.

546
00:29:49.167 --> 00:29:52.132
The reason I remember that, because I have picture of it.

547
00:29:52.133 --> 00:29:54.666
I didn't bring it with me.

548
00:29:54.667 --> 00:29:57.932
So, anyway, so my brother found out about that.

549
00:29:57.933 --> 00:30:01.666
He came to me ah in a few weeks later.

550
00:30:01.667 --> 00:30:04.499
And he happened to know where my sister lives.

551
00:30:04.500 --> 00:30:09.332
Approximately in the, the Washington D. C. area.

552
00:30:09.333 --> 00:30:11.666
All I knew she was in America.

553
00:30:11.667 --> 00:30:13.332
But, so he came closer.

554
00:30:13.333 --> 00:30:15.632
And somehow we found our sister.

555
00:30:15.633 --> 00:30:17.732
And she sent papers for us.

556
00:30:17.733 --> 00:30:27.666
And the two of, of us, came together, emigrated to America in ninet.., ah we left ah in 1946.

557
00:30:27.667 --> 00:30:28.999
We came to America.

558
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:37.332
'45 I was liberated, a year later, 46 of, of June I was in, ah in, in, in New York.

559
00:30:37.333 --> 00:30:37.699
IV: And then..

560
00:30:37.700 --> 00:30:38.399
CM: (???)

561
00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:41.666
IV: In the states, I think, you started a new life.

562
00:30:41.667 --> 00:30:43.099
Let's go back a little bit.

563
00:30:43.100 --> 00:30:44.332
Ah just to..

564
00:30:44.333 --> 00:30:46.132
HG: But they, I have to back up, because..

565
00:30:46.133 --> 00:30:46.599
IV: Okay.

566
00:30:46.600 --> 00:30:51.332
HG: What happened is, before the German army invaded my city

567
00:30:51.333 --> 00:30:57.466
in '39 of September, my Mum was very protective of us.

568
00:30:57.467 --> 00:31:04.399
There were three single girls and myself and the oldest of the brothers, the second oldest of the brothers.

569
00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:08.332
We went with a horse-drawn buggy on a farm.

570
00:31:08.333 --> 00:31:10.999
And we ate breakfast outside in the field.

571
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:12.666
In front of the farmer's house.

572
00:31:12.667 --> 00:31:14.666
He gave us a piece of bread.

573
00:31:14.667 --> 00:31:18.999
And we used a tomato and we ate a piece tomato and some bread.

574
00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:22.332
Supposed to go in to get a glass of milk in there.

575
00:31:22.333 --> 00:31:28.466
Before we got it in to get the glass of milk, my brother saw a soldier, a Polish soldier.

576
00:31:28.467 --> 00:31:32.666
Pulling ah a bicycle, broken bicycle.

577
00:31:32.667 --> 00:31:36.666
And his, his uniform was a little ripped.

578
00:31:36.667 --> 00:31:38.499
And my brother stopped him.

579
00:31:38.500 --> 00:31:39.966
Somehow he knew his name.

580
00:31:39.967 --> 00:31:41.666
I don't know how he knew his name.

581
00:31:41.667 --> 00:31:43.732
Maybe it was a guard of the city.

582
00:31:43.733 --> 00:31:46.799
But he did have quite a few medals on him.

583
00:31:46.800 --> 00:31:49.199
And he called him by his first name.

584
00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:51.532
And he told him, he says: "Where're you running from?"

585
00:31:51.533 --> 00:31:53.999
He says: "I am running from the German army.

586
00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:56.332
I didn't wanna get caught to be a prisoner."

587
00:31:56.333 --> 00:31:58.032
In Polish to my brother.

588
00:31:58.033 --> 00:32:00.166
And he ran away in the opposite direction.

589
00:32:00.167 --> 00:32:02.032
My brother had an idea.

590
00:32:02.033 --> 00:32:05.199
He asked the soldier, can he run away with him?

591
00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:07.632
And he took off and left me by myself.

592
00:32:07.633 --> 00:32:08.666
Right there.

593
00:32:08.667 --> 00:32:11.999
And then I said: "He had to leave me.

594
00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:14.999
He is my big brother, my, my hero brother.

595
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:18.266
He is gonna leave me with the three girls and my mum.

596
00:32:18.267 --> 00:32:20.799
You know, because the other one was the Polish army.

597
00:32:20.800 --> 00:32:21.232
IV: Yeah.

598
00:32:21.233 --> 00:32:23.132
HG: So, I was, I was the only man.

599
00:32:23.133 --> 00:32:23.499
IV: Yeah.

600
00:32:23.500 --> 00:32:24.666
HG: I didn't like that.

601
00:32:24.667 --> 00:32:29.266
I was chasing after, for a couple of miles, hiding under bushes.

602
00:32:29.267 --> 00:32:30.999
To see, where he disappeared.

603
00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:32.999
And he can.., but then he saw my head.

604
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:34.999
He yelled back: "Go back to your mother.

605
00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:36.132
Go back to your mother."

606
00:32:36.133 --> 00:32:38.232
I didn't listen to him of course.

607
00:32:38.233 --> 00:32:42.666
But with the soldier turning around, he yelled at me to go back to my mother.

608
00:32:42.667 --> 00:32:44.332
I said: "Okay."

609
00:32:44.333 --> 00:32:48.232
And the next time I saw him, he was in America.

610
00:32:48.233 --> 00:32:52.666
He escaped to Wilno, Lithuania.

611
00:32:52.667 --> 00:32:57.666
And somehow he got in touch, in touch with my sister in America.

612
00:32:57.667 --> 00:33:04.999
And they, ah I understand that they had a Japanese ambassador in Wilno Lithuania.

613
00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:07.999
By the name of Sugihara.

614
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:10.799
He was helping some Jews.

615
00:33:10.800 --> 00:33:12.666
They all took Chassidic Jews.

616
00:33:12.667 --> 00:33:14.432
With false passports.

617
00:33:14.433 --> 00:33:18.332
And he got them out of, he got them out of Wilno, Lithuania.

618
00:33:18.333 --> 00:33:20.666
And they sent them like to Manchuria.

619
00:33:20.667 --> 00:33:24.499
And from Manchuria they travelled wherever they wanted to go.

620
00:33:24.500 --> 00:33:26.799
Or whoever, the relatives...

621
00:33:26.800 --> 00:33:29.999
He asked to pick them up or what ever.

622
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:36.499
So, when I came to America with the other brother, we were looking for my sister to come pick us up.

623
00:33:36.500 --> 00:33:39.266
Well, there was a man. He came.

624
00:33:39.267 --> 00:33:40.766
And he got closer to me.

625
00:33:40.767 --> 00:33:43.732
I said: "Oh, that is our brother Dave."

626
00:33:43.733 --> 00:33:45.466
I said: "How did you get here?"

627
00:33:45.467 --> 00:33:49.666
He says: "Oh, I came to America in 1941."

628
00:33:49.667 --> 00:33:54.332
Then he started, so I told him: "If you would have been a good brother {laughing},

629
00:33:54.333 --> 00:33:56.632
you would have let me run away with you.

630
00:33:56.633 --> 00:33:59.666
And I would have been in America in 1941, too."

631
00:33:59.667 --> 00:34:03.332
So he started telling me how much trouble that he had {laughing},

632
00:34:03.333 --> 00:34:05.966
while he was in Lithuania.

633
00:34:05.967 --> 00:34:07.466
I said: "Well, that's okay.

634
00:34:07.467 --> 00:34:08.332
That's all right.

635
00:34:08.333 --> 00:34:09.466
You're still my brother."

636
00:34:09.467 --> 00:34:11.366
We hugged. We got on the train.

637
00:34:11.367 --> 00:34:14.999
They took us to Washington, D. C. to see my sister.

638
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:20.232
And we all lived with my sister for a while.

639
00:34:20.233 --> 00:34:24.666
IV: Ah, so, strange stories.

640
00:34:24.667 --> 00:34:25.866
{???} so., what..

641
00:34:25.867 --> 00:34:26.266
HG: Thank you.

642
00:34:26.267 --> 00:34:29.099
IV: ..happened to one family. And so..

643
00:34:29.100 --> 00:34:31.532
HG: And so, God was watching over me.

644
00:34:31.533 --> 00:34:32.566
I came here.

645
00:34:32.567 --> 00:34:35.532
I raised a beautiful family.

646
00:34:35.533 --> 00:34:38.332
And I came with nothing.

647
00:34:38.333 --> 00:34:39.666
With nothing.

648
00:34:39.667 --> 00:34:43.799
In America they say, on, the, in America that you can do that.

649
00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:49.799
You can become whoever you want to, if you're willing to work, willing to work hard.

650
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:53.066
And make something out of yourself.

651
00:34:53.067 --> 00:34:56.932
IV: So, but so starting this new life, what about the past?

652
00:34:56.933 --> 00:34:58.166
Did you try to forget it?

653
00:34:58.167 --> 00:35:00.566
HG: Well.., and I never forget it.

654
00:35:00.567 --> 00:35:01.432
I never forget it.

655
00:35:01.433 --> 00:35:04.666
In the beginning you were dreaming every night.

656
00:35:04.667 --> 00:35:07.166
I was black and blue sometimes from my wife.

657
00:35:07.167 --> 00:35:10.832
She would hit me at night time: "You were, you're dreaming, you're dreaming."

658
00:35:10.833 --> 00:35:12.166
Wake me up.

659
00:35:12.167 --> 00:35:18.732
But, since I am, I am a volunteer for quite a long time about fifteen years or more

660
00:35:18.733 --> 00:35:22.499
at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

661
00:35:22.500 --> 00:35:25.132
And I speak to audiences there.

662
00:35:25.133 --> 00:35:28.066
I tell my story just like I told you this story.

663
00:35:28.067 --> 00:35:30.332
And a, field trips come.

664
00:35:30.333 --> 00:35:38.499
And many, I don't say too many, I have run across quite a few a German young people that come.

665
00:35:38.500 --> 00:35:40.499
To the museum.

666
00:35:40.500 --> 00:35:46.166
And sometimes after they get through viewing they come down and they cry.

667
00:35:46.167 --> 00:35:49.966
And they ask: "Do you have ah survivors?"

668
00:35:49.967 --> 00:35:54.932
And the information tells them, there is a survivor at that desk.

669
00:35:54.933 --> 00:35:58.099
And every day somebody, two people sit at that desk.

670
00:35:58.100 --> 00:35:59.699
The survivors.

671
00:35:59.700 --> 00:36:02.099
Whether they are from Russia, whether they are from Poland.

672
00:36:02.100 --> 00:36:03.566
No matter who they are.

673
00:36:03.567 --> 00:36:07.666
And they start talking to the person.

674
00:36:07.667 --> 00:36:10.666
And sometimes we tell them: "You don't need to cry.

675
00:36:10.667 --> 00:36:12.099
It was not your fault.

676
00:36:12.100 --> 00:36:13.932
You were too young.

677
00:36:13.933 --> 00:36:17.632
Your great-grandfather, maybe, I will never forgive.

678
00:36:17.633 --> 00:36:20.032
But you and your mum and your parents.

679
00:36:20.033 --> 00:36:20.999
You're too young.

680
00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:23.466
I have nothing against you.

681
00:36:23.467 --> 00:36:25.666
You didn't do it."

682
00:36:25.667 --> 00:36:26.566
IV: And you also..

683
00:36:26.567 --> 00:36:28.299
HG: So that gets out of my system.

684
00:36:28.300 --> 00:36:32.732
Because I don't have a, some of this survivors keep everything bundled up.

685
00:36:32.733 --> 00:36:35.799
And eventually, and they explode.

686
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:38.532
Something happens to them and they loose their mind.

687
00:36:38.533 --> 00:36:41.532
Well, I know some of them, who did that.

688
00:36:41.533 --> 00:36:44.532
But, like I say, the group that goes out to talk

689
00:36:44.533 --> 00:36:48.532
we are about eighty of us at the Holocaust Museum.

690
00:36:48.533 --> 00:36:52.232
Every day there is somebody at that desk, two people.

691
00:36:52.233 --> 00:36:57.899
If somebody wants to talk to us and we, most of the time they come in and wanna take pictures with you.

692
00:36:57.900 --> 00:37:03.199
The audience, whether it is German.., I even ran across a German High School Gymnasium.

693
00:37:03.200 --> 00:37:07.132
They said they went to Auschwitz recently, a few days ago.

694
00:37:07.133 --> 00:37:08.399
I was there.

695
00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:12.366
And the and the guard, the woman that was taking them,

696
00:37:12.367 --> 00:37:15.532
ah as a group, was sitting with me on the bench.

697
00:37:15.533 --> 00:37:17.166
And we started talking.

698
00:37:17.167 --> 00:37:21.832
And while the, the children was sitting on the grass area, resting.

699
00:37:21.833 --> 00:37:24.999
So she found out about me.

700
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:26.532
Well, yeah, of course I told her.

701
00:37:26.533 --> 00:37:28.266
She asked me where I was from.

702
00:37:28.267 --> 00:37:31.599
And I told her that I am a survivor in the Holocaust.

703
00:37:31.600 --> 00:37:33.332
She said: "Can you do me a favour?"

704
00:37:33.333 --> 00:37:35.399
I said: "Sure. What do you need?"

705
00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:36.866
She said: "I bring the kids over here.

706
00:37:36.867 --> 00:37:38.166
Can you talk to them?"

707
00:37:38.167 --> 00:37:39.999
They came over to me.

708
00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:42.966
And I started telling them the story.

709
00:37:42.967 --> 00:37:44.566
Some of them would tear eye.

710
00:37:44.567 --> 00:37:46.599
Mostly the girls.

711
00:37:46.600 --> 00:37:49.666
And there was some boys and girls.

712
00:37:49.667 --> 00:37:52.966
Just, just about few days ago I did that.

713
00:37:52.967 --> 00:37:55.999
So, maybe that is the reason I get it out of my system...

714
00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:57.732
And that doesn't affect me.

715
00:37:57.733 --> 00:38:00.466
Some of the pe.., like I say, do not talk.

716
00:38:00.467 --> 00:38:01.299
They will not talk.

717
00:38:01.300 --> 00:38:02.666
They can't talk.

718
00:38:02.667 --> 00:38:03.999
They break down, too.

719
00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:08.866
IV: Yeah. But in the beginning, when you got your children and your family,

720
00:38:08.867 --> 00:38:11.066
you did talk about your, tell your, to tell your sons...

721
00:38:11.067 --> 00:38:14.099
HG: I have never told my kids until they were older.

722
00:38:14.100 --> 00:38:14.532
IV: Yeah.

723
00:38:14.533 --> 00:38:20.299
HG: I remember they finally found out about it in 1978.

724
00:38:20.300 --> 00:38:24.766
There was a documentary on NBC playing.

725
00:38:24.767 --> 00:38:29.099
And they played, it was called, the documentary was called Holocaust.

726
00:38:29.100 --> 00:38:29.732
IV: Oh no.

727
00:38:29.733 --> 00:38:33.832
HG: So they broke it down to three segments.

728
00:38:33.833 --> 00:38:37.466
Ah every other night over..., just break it up.

729
00:38:37.467 --> 00:38:41.099
And my, I used to tell when they were little, my, especially my daughter.

730
00:38:41.100 --> 00:38:45.266
She wants to know my.., I said: "That is my telephone number from the store {laughing}."

731
00:38:45.267 --> 00:38:46.399
I would not tell her.

732
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:49.299
But then, 1978, they were already older.

733
00:38:49.300 --> 00:38:52.432
They knew what it was.

734
00:38:52.433 --> 00:38:56.632
About that time I went around to talk already at that time.

735
00:38:56.633 --> 00:38:59.232
IV: But now it is the first time you are coming to Flossenbürg?

736
00:38:59.233 --> 00:39:01.199
HG: Yes, I have a reason for that.

737
00:39:01.200 --> 00:39:02.932
I was to busy in my store.

738
00:39:02.933 --> 00:39:05.232
I was in the dry-cleaning business.

739
00:39:05.233 --> 00:39:06.866
And I couldn't get out.

740
00:39:06.867 --> 00:39:11.199
And my wife was not feeling well, too much always, to be traveling.

741
00:39:11.200 --> 00:39:13.366
And then I had, the children were little.

742
00:39:13.367 --> 00:39:16.132
I didn't, and I didn't feel like leaving them alone.

743
00:39:16.133 --> 00:39:22.099
But since, I am eighty-six years old, I said, "you better do it now, or you never do it again."

744
00:39:22.100 --> 00:39:24.066
So I took it up on myself to do it.

745
00:39:24.067 --> 00:39:27.332
They agreed to come travel with me.

746
00:39:27.333 --> 00:39:28.999
So I decided to come here.

747
00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:32.999
IV: Mhm {confirming}. And now, what about your, what about your feelings, your emotions?

748
00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:38.999
HG: Feeling this, well, it affects me, but I said, I almost look back at the bright side of the story.

749
00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:40.232
I said: "I'm alive.

750
00:39:40.233 --> 00:39:42.332
And accomplished a lot." I said.

751
00:39:42.333 --> 00:39:46.732
While I was here, I cannot bring them back, the people who were murdered.

752
00:39:46.733 --> 00:39:48.666
I can't bring them back.

753
00:39:48.667 --> 00:39:52.266
So I'm, I'm happy as I get along with my family.

754
00:39:52.267 --> 00:39:54.766
I got three sons and a daughter.

755
00:39:54.767 --> 00:39:58.332
I got twelve grandkids, six great granddaughters.

756
00:39:58.333 --> 00:40:00.566
One of them is a little boy.

757
00:40:00.567 --> 00:40:04.332
So, I, I raised ah I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm good, in good shape.

758
00:40:04.333 --> 00:40:05.432
I can't walk too good.

759
00:40:05.433 --> 00:40:07.066
But that is all right.

760
00:40:07.067 --> 00:40:08.666
But so far, I'm okay.

761
00:40:08.667 --> 00:40:13.699
IV: Mhm {confirming}. So, one last question, let's come, come, going back to Flossenbürg.

762
00:40:13.700 --> 00:40:18.199
Ah when you told your story, you said, one camp was like the other.

763
00:40:18.200 --> 00:40:18.999
So, are there any special..

764
00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:20.532
HG: Well, when I came in the barrack,

765
00:40:20.533 --> 00:40:22.866
what I ment is the barracks're the same.

766
00:40:22.867 --> 00:40:24.632
The barracks were the same.

767
00:40:24.633 --> 00:40:26.266
Three people to a barrack.

768
00:40:26.267 --> 00:40:27.466
The same food.

769
00:40:27.467 --> 00:40:29.432
A slice of bread in the morning.

770
00:40:29.433 --> 00:40:31.666
A little black Ersatz-coffee.

771
00:40:31.667 --> 00:40:34.399
And then we work for ten hours in the factories.

772
00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:37.566
And then they gave us cabbage water, cabbage soup.

773
00:40:37.567 --> 00:40:40.999
I remember, that I had a spoon in the, tied up to my pants.

774
00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:42.466
I never took it off.

775
00:40:42.467 --> 00:40:45.232
Because it was nothing to spoon.

776
00:40:45.233 --> 00:40:48.299
Just drink out this bowl of soup. That's all.

777
00:40:48.300 --> 00:40:51.566
In every camp I stayed, that the, the, the diet never changed.

778
00:40:51.567 --> 00:40:53.266
Except in one camp.

779
00:40:53.267 --> 00:40:54.532
It might have been here.

780
00:40:54.533 --> 00:40:56.599
The Red Cross came one day.

781
00:40:56.600 --> 00:41:02.866
And I don't know whether this, the Red Cross was a German Red Cross or whether international?

782
00:41:02.867 --> 00:41:05.266
Or whether they were Polish, that I don't know.

783
00:41:05.267 --> 00:41:06.766
We could not talk to them.

784
00:41:06.767 --> 00:41:09.499
The German officers were talking, discussing.

785
00:41:09.500 --> 00:41:10.999
But they made us clean up,

786
00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:12.266
the area real good.

787
00:41:12.267 --> 00:41:17.166
They brought in two goals to, for us to play soccer.

788
00:41:17.167 --> 00:41:21.599
And, and that day, we didn't get any cabbage water soup.

789
00:41:21.600 --> 00:41:23.899
We got cream of wheat.

790
00:41:23.900 --> 00:41:31.366
And I, I know for sure that these ah, ah red cross people that were there, were observing us.

791
00:41:31.367 --> 00:41:33.299
That we don't look like that we get fat.

792
00:41:33.300 --> 00:41:35.166
Cream of wheat everyday.

793
00:41:35.167 --> 00:41:37.732
The way we looked.

794
00:41:37.733 --> 00:41:40.966
The next day back to cabbage water.

795
00:41:40.967 --> 00:41:44.832
And I think it was Flossenbürg.

796
00:41:44.833 --> 00:41:47.999
IV: So, but Flossenbürg was the last camp you have been?

797
00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:50.466
And it was very close to the end of the war?

798
00:41:50.467 --> 00:41:50.599
HG: True..

799
00:41:50.600 --> 00:41:54.899
IV: So, was it more, more crowded, more difficult, more dirty?

800
00:41:54.900 --> 00:41:58.666
More dying people than compared to the other camps?

801
00:41:58.667 --> 00:42:02.599
HG: Well, Flossenbürg, I remember they had ah a nice bathroom.

802
00:42:02.600 --> 00:42:05.432
They didn't have that bathroom with that long seats

803
00:42:05.433 --> 00:42:07.032
I don't think, with the holes.

804
00:42:07.033 --> 00:42:12.632
There is like a regular, if, if you go to urinate the, ah the wall thing, to normal...

805
00:42:12.633 --> 00:42:15.266
And all the other camps we didn't have that.

806
00:42:15.267 --> 00:42:18.366
That is the only thing about Flossenbürg that I remember.

807
00:42:18.367 --> 00:42:20.732
And it was some way to wash your hands, too.

808
00:42:20.733 --> 00:42:25.032
No soap, but you could wash your hands.

809
00:42:25.033 --> 00:42:27.266
But I didn't see all of Flossenbürg.

810
00:42:27.267 --> 00:42:33.399
I arrived yesterday and I just mingled with the group that's in, under the tent.

811
00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:34.199
IV: Yeah.

812
00:42:34.200 --> 00:42:36.066
HG: To see, if I recognize anybody.

813
00:42:36.067 --> 00:42:41.932
Today we're hoping we gonna go into the office or library or the museum whatever they have there.

814
00:42:41.933 --> 00:42:44.666
To see, if my records are there.

815
00:42:44.667 --> 00:42:47.666
IV: Yeah, and so, perhaps some memories will come back, seeing..

816
00:42:47.667 --> 00:42:48.666
HG: Perhaps, yes..

817
00:42:48.667 --> 00:42:48.999
IV: Old pictures..

818
00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:49.632
HG: Because..

819
00:42:49.633 --> 00:42:51.666
IV: Or the area..

820
00:42:51.667 --> 00:42:54.599
HG: Like we went back to Auschwitz, before I came here.

821
00:42:54.600 --> 00:42:54.599
IV: Yeah.

822
00:42:54.600 --> 00:42:56.599
HG: We went to Birkenau, Auschwitz.

823
00:42:56.600 --> 00:43:00.666
Some of the barracks, you know, they would, I, I remember the barracks.

824
00:43:00.667 --> 00:43:03.232
I don't know exactly where they were.

825
00:43:03.233 --> 00:43:04.499
But they were there.

826
00:43:04.500 --> 00:43:08.132
I remember seeing the, whether the guards was sitting on top of there.

827
00:43:08.133 --> 00:43:13.999
They're guarding the area with a, where the ah electric w.., ah fences were around.

828
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:15.032
And then that was roped up.

829
00:43:15.033 --> 00:43:17.066
You can't go behind the fences.

830
00:43:17.067 --> 00:43:17.732
That kind of thing.

831
00:43:17.733 --> 00:43:19.599
Yeah, it comes back to you.

832
00:43:19.600 --> 00:43:23.966
But I didn't see anything here yet.

833
00:43:23.967 --> 00:43:26.999
IV: Okay. So, I just can say: "Thank you for sharing..

834
00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:28.332
HG: You, you're welcome.

835
00:43:28.333 --> 00:43:29.299
IV: ..your experience."

836
00:43:29.300 --> 00:43:30.666
HG: And by the way I will tell you.

837
00:43:30.667 --> 00:43:35.732
I was interviewed by a German television station around,

838
00:43:35.733 --> 00:43:43.399
I think it was easter time, when we had, the museum had the twentieth anniversary, since they opened.

839
00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:44.832
IV: Yeah. The Holocaust Museum?

840
00:43:44.833 --> 00:43:48.232
HG: Yes, the Jewish..,United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

841
00:43:48.233 --> 00:43:49.699
That is the right title.

842
00:43:49.700 --> 00:43:53.099
And so, a German crew came up to my appartment.

843
00:43:53.100 --> 00:43:57.532
They were two, two men and a woman from the German television station.

844
00:43:57.533 --> 00:44:00.466
That is stationed in the Washington area.

845
00:44:00.467 --> 00:44:03.332
They came to meet me for almost two hours.

846
00:44:03.333 --> 00:44:06.332
And then was, you know, that by the time you get through,

847
00:44:06.333 --> 00:44:11.832
they edited, you know, ah like a little, because she send me the, the tape.

848
00:44:11.833 --> 00:44:12.332
IV: Yeah.

849
00:44:12.333 --> 00:44:12.999
HG: The disc.

850
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:13.299
IV: Yeah.

851
00:44:13.300 --> 00:44:16.599
HG: Two seconds. And I said, they interviewed me for two hours.

852
00:44:16.600 --> 00:44:18.132
That was more than that.

853
00:44:18.133 --> 00:44:24.632
But on television, and by the time, this television was shown in, in Germany.

854
00:44:24.633 --> 00:44:26.766
On the evening news.

855
00:44:26.767 --> 00:44:28.399
Now whether you can follow that up,

856
00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:30.832
to see, if I'm telling you the truth {laughing}.

857
00:44:30.833 --> 00:44:33.666
Mayb.., maybe you can find out something.

858
00:44:33.667 --> 00:44:39.000
IV: So, but this time, you will get a DVD of..