European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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They were really mean there, so I left and went to this other camp,
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by a large river that had just been bombed, where we started to work.
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I lost all contact with the two officers afterwards, since that place was basically a marshalling camp,
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where 100-200 prisoners arrived by train every day.
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I’ve been in four different German internment camps.
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The last one I was in, where we were finally set free, was called Wickede and was in Westfalia, near Dortmund.
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Normally people used to go to sleep immediately.
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The camp I’ve been in for the longest period was in Hagen, again in Westfalia, near Dortmund, which was a very big city.
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In Wickede, I had to get up at 5 in the morning, walk 2 km to the station,
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travel by train for 70 km, then walk to the job I had,
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and sometimes I would end up getting back at nine in the evening.
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There were also nasty episodes, although not too often.
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They might come to check on us at, say, 10:30 at night, so we would have to gather in the hallway.
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One of us was sleeping in the corner, another one was ill, and they would send us all outside to do some exercise.
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We wore wooden shoes that could easily be lost while walking down the three steps that led to each shack.
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Then they would have us walk in circles for hours, sometimes under the rain.
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Episodes of this kind were not too frequent, but definitely happened.
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I was arrested, or, I should rather say, we were loaded on their trains on the 16th of September,
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and made it home only two years later, on the 14th of September.
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We were near the Ruhr area, where most armament factories were located,
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