European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I got to block X.
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There were two blocks, our transport took block number IX and X.
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At night, nobody knew anything, it was empty, cold, we were hungry.
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We get up in the morning, opened the door and there, in front of us, were four transports of Czech Jews.
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We came on 17th January, and those transports from Czech I guess, came definitely earlier than us.
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They were, I can say, close to death.
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After the first night, one of our colleagues died.
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We took him out and waited.
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We did not manage to put him down and those Czech Jews jumped on him like vultures
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and everybody took clothes or whatever from him.
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I will never forget this sight.
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Even now I have it in my dreams them jumping onto him, all of them, falling down because of starvation,
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they were Muslims, in the camp language.
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So with the next dead body, next day there were two or three dead bodies, we undressed them.
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You see, during one night our mentality changed.
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Those who did not have warm clothes started undressing dead bodies to have something better,
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we had to get used to new conditions immediately.
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Hiding a Jew, Maria, at home
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The daughter of a lawyer, a Jew, his name was Holzkener,
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his daughter Maria, I took her out of the ghetto, when the ghetto was being built,
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