European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Quite nice. That was how he was. I had already imagined it would be that way. But things got straightened out in the end.
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I had been called to the police headquarters because a family was asking for information about their son.
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I hesitated for a long time, but finally I decided to go, as it was to help.
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When I walked into the police office, one of these individuals who had arrested me, entered.
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I did a huge leap, with my 35kg at the time, yelling at the police officer:
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“Ask that cop what he did in the night of October 21st, 1941!” I made a big fuss.
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The officer calmed me down and sent the other one out.
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Every-day live at Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Day to day life in the camp started with the morning role-call.
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The camp was huge.
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I think we were a hundred thousand prisoners.
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Birkenau was especially huge.
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Then we found out that Birkenau was no holiday resort.
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The days were very long: from 4h00 or 5h00 in the morning ‘til 21h00, 22h00 in the evening,
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because if one of the 22,300 people was missing during the evening role-call, he had to be found.
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We had to stay standing until this person was found. Sometimes we spent whole nights outside.
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Some people hid, some escaped and then we had to stand until the following morning, in summer, and winter.
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The winters in Upper Silesia are very cold, terrible. We lost many men there.
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Our days began at 4h00 or 5h00 with a first role-call.
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They handed out a brew that they called herbata in our mugs,
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