European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The arrival at home was different for each of us. The parents were all different from each other of course.
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I arrived home in the morning and my mother was there.
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She was a textile worker, but they sometimes had days off, and she was home. Ah! That was …!
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My father arrived in the evening. He was a coppersmith, working very hard. He was also very firm.
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He said:
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“So there you are! Where are you coming from?”
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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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