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Similarly, they did not expect us to work too hard, but we had to be at work every day.
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In my camp, after we woke up at five,
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we were supposed to get up and leave with the others,
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but after that there was no control on what we did during the day.
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And in any case, there was nowhere we could go.
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You were simply expected to be at work, even if you didn’t do anything all day.
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It was very cold where we were.
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There were Russian women, as well as some men.
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The harsh life of the camp
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All they gave us to eat was one of those tall loaves of dark bread.
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It was a large loaf, but you had to split it in five pieces.
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That’s all you got until evening. Then at night we were given some slop, but no more bread.
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That piece of bread was like gold for me: I used to eat it bit by bit, in order to savor it.
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We were terribly hungry and in the winter, when we went to work in Hagen, it was freezing:
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we spent the whole day close to a river and the air was unbearable.
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At lunch they gave us some slop.
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That’s where I’ve learned about margarine,
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chard, turnip, and this kind of stuff, all minced, cooked and seasoned with some of this margarine.
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Those who came last ended up eating it cold,
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and it was often my case, since I did not like to cram up with all the others.
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