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The person in question has given us the following information: If I had to and were able to
present all the misery I experienced I could talk for weeks but I do not do it gladly as
remembering is horrible. Already in the
ghetto
of
Aknaszlatina
Hungarians treated us in a horrible way. They terribly tortured us,
grabbed all
our valuables but that was not all. They said we kept treasures even under our
skin, and they treated us accordingly. They searched us undressed, unfortunately not only us
but also our
wives and
daughters. Even high-ranking officers watched this performance. When we learnt
they were going to take us away we were glad to go. Anywhere, just away from there. Leaving
behind
Aknaszlatina we travelled 90 of us in a
freight
car and arrived in
Birkenau three days
later. On the way many of us
died in
the freight car because we got no water. In
Auschwitz we had to
get off the
train and leave our entire luggage behind.
Women
were led to the right, three of us brothers and my father to the left. Having walked a
little, unfortunately, also our father was
separated from us. The day after, we were moved to the
camp in
Auschwitz, where we stayed for three days. We got tattoos here and went on to
Buna, 8
kilometres from
Auschwitz.
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We had to lay cables in the ground. We had to carry heavy cables
in a distance of 4 kilometres; my back aches even today if I think of it. Nevertheless, our
camp was clean and we also got
food.
They harmed only those who could not
work,
but they would beat these
people
ruthlessly. When the front got closer they transferred us into
Buchenwald. We
travelled 130 of us in a little open freight car in the freezing cold of January. We received 500 grams of
bread
for the journey. Many
perished during this journey. 12,000
people
departed but I doubt there were as many as 6,000 of us when we arrived. When we got off the
train the
SS immediately approached and shot the
people
who could not walk but sat down. Naturally, we had to watch it without saying a word;
otherwise they would have shot us as well, since they had the weapon. In
Buchenwald we got
into quarantine. We did not
work
here at all as this was a
selecting place. In the cold of January,
in the freezing cold of the mornings we were being lined up for 2-6 hours during
roll
calls. We had to suffer unbearably. Many
died
during the
roll calls. They just threw these
people
out of line.
Crematorium was working day and night but could not cope with the
great number of
dead bodies. Later, I was singled out from block 51 and got into the
youthful
block, no. 66. We did not
work
either here but at least we did not need to leave the block but lined up for
roll
calls inside. It was somewhat better here. Our leader was a
Czech who treated us so nicely that it is
difficult to find the words to describe it. He treated us like a father his children.
Although he was also a
prisoner, with limited opportunities, he still managed to obtain
even
food for us. The
English were
already quite close when we were also taken away after 8 weeks of stay. There were 60,000
people in
Buchenwald of very diverse nationalities, out of whom 10,000 of us were Jews.
I cannot give dates, since we were not humans here, but lived like the most miserable
beasts. In April, when, as I have said,
English troops
got closer, we left
Buchenwald. They hurriedly entrained us in
Weimar, putting 100
people
in a car. Travelling for 14 days back and forth, (since there was no place where they
accepted us), we arrived in
Theresienstadt,
where
Russians
liberated us. My future plans? I do not know. First, I would like to find out
whether there are surviving members of my
family,
and will make plans only afterwards.