European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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All advantages and disadvantages that a human being can have.
All advantages and disadvantages that a human being can have.
Di tutti i pregi e i difetti che una persona possa avere. -
To get a birth certificate from a priest, you had to give a bribe.
To get a birth certificate from a priest, you had to give a bribe.
Perché per avere dal prete un certificato di nascita, bisognava pagarlo. -
Later on, to make `Kennkarte`, usually the price for it was about one thousand Zloties or more.
Later on, to make `Kennkarte`, usually the price for it was about one thousand Zloties or more.
Successivamente, per fare la "Kennkarte", il prezzo medio era fino a mille zloty o di più. -
Then photos, then to find a photographer. It had to be organized perfectly.
Then photos, then to find a photographer. It had to be organized perfectly.
Poi le foto, trovare un fotografo. Il tutto doveva essere organizzato alla perfezione. -
Differences were big.
Differences were big.
Erano tante le differenze. -
Here there were hungry and naked people, dead bodies were not in the streets, and there they were.
Here there were hungry and naked people, dead bodies were not in the streets, and there they were.
Qui non c'erano persone affamate e nude sdraiate lungo la strada, o i cadaveri, mentre lì sì. -
And then this horrible contrast.
And then this horrible contrast.
E in seguito c'era questo contrasto assurdo. -
Can you believe that in the ghetto you could get bananas and in Warsaw you did not have any chance to get them?
Can you believe that in the ghetto you could get bananas and in Warsaw you did not have any chance to get them?
Se le dico che nel ghetto era possibile procurarsi delle banane, mentre a Varsavia questo era impensabile, mi crede? -
There was a restaurant, a Jewish one, in the ghetto, in 1942, where you could get everything.
There was a restaurant, a Jewish one, in the ghetto, in 1942, where you could get everything.
C'era un ristorante ebraico nel ghetto, nel '42, dove era possibile trovare di tutto. -
Even on the Aryan side you could not find it…
Even on the Aryan side you could not find it…
Cose che non si trovavano neanche nella parte ariana… -
And when you get to the street, only dead bodies, naked…
And when you get to the street, only dead bodies, naked…
Mentre fuori, per strada – solo cadaveri, corpi nudi… -
And that police… I, if I was going into the ghetto, I was scared only of the Jewish police. Nobody else.
And that police… I, if I was going into the ghetto, I was scared only of the Jewish police. Nobody else.
E la polizia… Quando entravo nel ghetto, avevo paura solo della polizia ebraica. Nessun altro. -
Because I had never seen that a German shot a Jew in the ghetto.
Because I had never seen that a German shot a Jew in the ghetto.
Perché nel ghetto non ho mai visto i tedeschi sparare agli ebrei. -
But I saw Jewish police killing Jews in the ghetto. And I saw it.
But I saw Jewish police killing Jews in the ghetto. And I saw it.
Mentre vidi con i propri occhi come la polizia ebraica uccideva gli ebrei. -
I did not understand them at that time.
I did not understand them at that time.
All'epoca non li capivo. -
When I got to Majdanek, I understood what it was about.
When I got to Majdanek, I understood what it was about.
Solo a Majdanek capì a cosa era dovuto. -
This group of people, those who were managing the ghetto, wanted to survive at all costs.
This group of people, those who were managing the ghetto, wanted to survive at all costs.
Quel gruppo di persone, quelli che gestivano il ghetto, volevano sopravvivere a tutti i costi. -
It was not the Germans who were preparing the long lines of Jews who were sent to Umschlagplatz.
It was not the Germans who were preparing the long lines of Jews who were sent to Umschlagplatz.
Del resto, non erano i tedeschi quelli che formavano colonne di ebrei da mandare all'Umschlagplatz. -
Jews were doing that, those Jewish policemen.
Jews were doing that, those Jewish policemen.
Lo facevano gli ebrei, quei poliziotti ebrei. -
They were told to deliver four hundred Jews,
They were told to deliver four hundred Jews,
Gli era stato detto che dovevano far arrivare alla rampa quattrocento ebrei,