Holocaust Survivor Israel “Izzy” Arbeiter Shares His Story

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pcr right there I was born in Poland in a city called plotsk plock my mother uh she said she has a base a basketball team that you can Look at the photo on the wall Five guys, me He was the middle one, of course, the most handsome and we were a happy family. Five boys, you know, there were arguments, fights between us boys, but that was at home, but if a stranger started. with one of the children he had to deal with the fun and you see the little boy there who was seven years old when he was murdered in the tribune he couldn't reach the guy we were fighting with, but then he kicked him in the legs, it was funny, but everything It turned out well, you know, Poland was not the richest country in the world.

My father was a tailor constantly, he could make custom clothes and, for a long time, there were a lot of Jews, it wasn't... Jewish communities but then we were happy, we lived in a tourist apartment that was middle class, so one of the rooms was the kitchen, my father's tailor's shop in the dining room, which was one of the rooms, the second room was the bedroom for seven people. and the office for my father to deal with clients, so you can imagine seven people sleeping in one room. We slept four to a bed, two at the head and two on the other side, but this was in Poland before the war.

We didn't know they were better, we heard about America and the saying about America was that there's money lying on the street, you just have to know how to pick it up, so I was very eager to get there and I was practicing how to pick up money from this industry and that It continued until September 1, 1939, when the Germans attacked Poland, the city of Plusque was located, which is still 90 kilometers from the German border, which is 90 kilometers away, it took the German army three days. uh to enter prolonged the entry into the city of florsk in other parts of poland uh poland uh capitulated after about four weeks uh so that was in september 1939 in october november 1939 a ghetto was established and all the jewish people of The city, which was ten thousand people.

We were ordered to live in a certain section of the city, it was called the Jewish ghetto. We were ordered to weigh the yellow star of the Star of David. I'm sure you've probably seen that before we couldn't leave the ghetto, you were allowed to leave. only if you went to work the only place to work was for the Germans the food was legend only those who went to work for the Germans that your old heart that was getting smaller and smaller there were certain things that were not worship cut at all like sugar for the body, meat, bread was free, I mean, we could buy bread, we could buy potatoes, technical things, but life was not as happy as it was before in Poland and competing a little, as I said, we were not , the age problem was It's not a rich country, but we were happy, Jews living in color in one area, it was a happy, happy life, we didn't know any better, there were better places to live, but we didn't know it, so we were satisfied. with that and as I said in November 1939 it was established that only those who worked for the Germans could live together live together without the permeate I was punished very strongly and sometimes even with the death penalty it did not take much for a Jew to do something bad according to the Germans to shoot that person or hang him the people who were accused of doing something bad to a German in fact I was still in 1939 when we lived in the ghetto Suddenly one year a lie arose that a drunk German soldier, a Germanic soldier got lost in the Jewish ghetto and the Jews beat him there, which was not true and therefore they were ordered to pick up 25 Jews together. and they agreed to hang them as an indicator for others to see and what they said, this is what will happen if you hurt the Germans.

At first, the German who entered was the regular army, calling the wehrmacht, but these were the front line troops and just kept them advancing right behind them came the strange thing that the occupation forces consisted of the Gestapo. I'm sure you know what the Gestapo was and all the different types of police units and they brought with them to Nuremberg. laws that were already used in Germany, the Nuremberg laws, the laws that existed by the local police in the ghettos and they were getting stronger and people were being picked up off the streets, people were disappearing and they were fired, they were never go. them again, um, people beat them, tortured them and so on, and the laws in the ghetto were getting stronger in 19 and more, as I mentioned before, 190 kilometers from the German border because of that, the area around where we lived. which was called massobsheik was incorporated into the third and was therefore declared urinal of the reality of the Jews uh the order came in February 1941 that all the Jews of the ghetto in the middle of the night without prior notice uh the ss units They are arriving in the kettle so that all the Jews could go out together and they give us 15 minutes to take everything we can with them, so imagine that there are families that live there from generation to generation and they gave us 15 minutes to leave everything behind and drink whatever, just what they can, what do you do in a situation like that?

First you try to get a loaf of bread or something to eat and whatever is left, of course the Polish population in general was very impressive and during that. On that occasion they couldn't wait for the minutes for the Jews to be taken out together so they could enter and rub the houses with the Jews to live in and finally they got the area in the ghetto where the Jews. We lived to give to the Poles and we were sent to some whisperers in eastern Russia to the first camp in 1941. It was called Eastern Russia, so that was the name of the king there.

We got our first taste of what it was. It's living under the Nazis they were coming and going in trucks and buses or whatever we had to run through a car in a very narrow place, you know, each side stood evaluating and poles with sticks with baseball bats and we they hit As we ran, those who passed for good form were placed on buttocks that used to be military buttocks, there was nothing there except a straw on the ground, they will still shock the whole family and uh, um, to start the punishment. of the Jews or to show what they can do, they closed, excuse me, the bathrooms were closed in the middle of the camp, they were digging and they made us dig a hole like in this city and this was the bathroom, whatever you had. to make men or women, you stayed on top of the hill and did what you had to do, so imagine we are still civilized, people were being driven out of our homes, we, in our homes, lived a civilized life, although they tortured us.

They were killed which was bad but here you have to stay if you have to go in the middle of the day this is where you go men women children so that was terrible and the butt of course like I said there was only a little bit of straw so that's what We were sleeping on that straw, thank God, with the guard not being there for long. We were sent from there after about two or three weeks to um uh, deep in a long pound called Starakovic in a very poor star area of ​​Poland. They were people who lived with him, the boss, they lived in two-bedroom apartments.

There were many people who had a one-room apartment in the ghetto because it was a small town and they had to gather people and place them in In that ghetto I remember that there was a shoemaker called yakit mandu and he had a room that was not much bigger than He is here and he had a small store where he fixed shoes and there was a bed, he had seven children and the saying was when he needed a part to fix a pair of shoes for a customer he was trying to reach under the bed and he grabbed a child by the hand. legs and he took it off because they were everywhere there and that was where the situation was getting very serious there was a munitions factory before the war the Poles had their munitions factory so now of course the Germans became in charge of it and they continued to produce the ammunition they needed for their army, but they also needed slaves, so we were the slaves and they took us to work in the ammunition factory.

I was assigned to work in the artillery regiments. I was in 1939, I was 14 years old. and think about it, at the age of 14 under the Nazis they declared me a slave condemned to death for the only The crime I committed because I was born to Jewish parents and that was my life from then on a 14 year old slave condemned to that, so they placed us there in the um facility, at the beginning there was the factory and we could go home to our families, we got a room with another family that had two rooms, so they forced us to give a room to my family and they moved to another family.

I don't think it's humanity with their families, but think about what I'm going to say, it was difficult. enough to accommodate a family of seven, someone else had to give up one room of their two rooms and just have other people living there, but the worst thing was that the two women shared the kitchen, can you imagine? Can you imagine, uh, whether it's your mother's or your grandmother's or whatever, you have to share that the people who live there, the woman who lives there, have to share the kitchen with my mother. The bad thing is that they don't like us, they didn't invite us.

They didn't want us to be there but we my mother had to share I had to share the kitchen with my mother and let me tell you there was no electric heat there was no electric stove it was coral and wood that was and we didn't have pots or anything so we had to use their plates and everything for them, so it was terrible. We Jews were assigned to live there by the jcrc, not by those in Boston. It was called Jewish Community Council when they got there, they had to register to get what's called Liam's Metal, a relationship card.

If you didn't register for work, you didn't get an addiction card, so with the duration card, we who were working got whatever. as for the duration, uh, in stores you can also buy it again, no, not intellectually, it was enough to survive a couple of days because then in 1941, and I'm sure you heard about it at the bonsai conference , the monkey conference was in Berlin. it was a villa that was owned by the rituals before they were sent to a concentration camp before the German juices were sent before us and under the direction of Himmler who got others from Hitler um a group of uh evaluation and high ranking The Nazis were placed in that place in that conference room and after five days of drinking and this is my interpretation, now a group of drunk Nazis decided the faith of 11 million Jews living in Europe at that time, the plan that Lo What they resolved was that 11 people, those Jews who live under the occupation of the Germans, will be exterminated and the other six million who live in the unoccupied year when the German army advances and occupies those territories, will also be entered into the gates under those laws and starting in 1942 they began to create a special SS unit that would come again to the ghettos, removing the Jews and taking them to the concentration camps.

You must maintain yourself. In mind there were three different types of camps, one was slave labor camps, uh, people who were taken out of the ghettos and forced to do slave labor, the second was reduced in the duration of its operations with slave labor with hard labor , so it was 12 hour shifts to work and very little food the third was the extermination in the gas chambers in certain concentration camps that were built cashews there were six camps the first was in a place called Auschwitz the Germans changed it to Auschwitz before the war it is a Polish cavalry camp where the Polish army practiced and was stationed and then the Germans turned it into a prison for Polish prisoners of war in 1942, in early 1942 the one who captured it came there to see and visit it and He liked what he saw. prison a kim and a surviving Polish prisoner and he ordered and nearby another camp should be built that was called auschwitz two our tents auschwitz one in auschwitz two were the other was only three kilometers away now you get every year you have the uh the march of the living, the people who come to Auschwitz and walk the three kilometers to the girls' canal because in Birkenau that was the new chamber and that is where the guest chambers were located, there were five guest chambers in Auschwitz, Auschwitz bill canal , actually, what was the Same thing, but his name was Al should Berger now in Birkenau they built five guest chambers and crematoriums according to the orders of the Himalayas.

The first was a banker where the Polish army he was training kept their supplies, so now they took it out and closed it. the windows made a door with a steel door in a little hole so you can look in there and see what's going on and that's when they started experimenting with their guesses and the first ones who were actually killed were the Russian prisoners of war in that moment before Himley brought in some chemists from a company that produces chemical chemicals, thank you andThey said it was cytome that was used before to kill mice in rats, so they suggested that it could kill human things.

It probably kills humans too, so they tried that little thing that makes gestures, uh, which was now returned as a star question and they built me ​​next to a crematorium where they can build their own ovens with a big chimney in a oven where they could burn their bodies, it's been 80 years since I left the place with those tall chimneys, but every time I walk by or pass by somewhere and I see factories with tall chimneys, it takes the shoulders and um and for me in me I myself say that it is something that we are going to end, but of course they were here in the United States and just to say that they would never get out of the system seeing those chimneys around where they are now Switzerland so day and night the smell that they smelled when I was in Auschwitz in 1944 there were 10,000 people imagine 10,000 and I was affected by the destruction and murder of people every day ten thousand Jews were brought in on trains and opened cattle were transported on guest trains and burned in crematoriums and without it, the The largest could hold 2,000 people at a time, the others were 1,000 1,500 but the largest was 2,000 people at a time and thus they can exterminate 10,000 people a day.

On the day when guest rooms could fill a room full of people in 15 minutes, it was only up to us to remove the bodies and take them to the crematoriums, where again our Jewish prisoners were working in the ovens and burning the bodies. The gas chambers couldn't kill more people than that, but the crematoriums couldn't burn the bodies that quickly, so they built trenches outside with boxes, put boxes on top, and started burning the extra people they didn't reach. with the guest rooms and then they put two or three people in the boxes at a time, but there were several ditches and that was, although it was very bad and terribly horrible to see those people coming, since we came with the train in the selection by dr mendeleev by other doctors and those were selected into two groups one was the one on the left wonders on the right uh you didn't know which is which because mengele didn't say anything he was just pointing his finger to the left you were walking by him and he alone was pointing left or right, left or right and when this uh, the group was resolved, uh, we didn't know which direction this group was going or where this group was going, the group in which I It was my brothers, uh.

The next day we did not see the people who were placed on the left side, but later we discovered that they went directly to the gas chambers, they took us to say to the right, although we did not know where it was. and they put us in the gypsy again, I'm sure you must have heard about the chips, the Egyptians had a separate chamber for themselves, they took them outside before the Jews and um and they lived there with families and they were allowed to take everything with them dogs horses uh whole families but then one night while we were where we were entering, excuse me and they put us in the guests and the buttocks on the left side were empty on the right side the Egyptians lived and so during the night we had a lot of noise uh the sun the commander, I'm sure you know what's in the commandos, it was a special Jewish unit that was selected towards the guest rooms and the crematoriums uh, it was mainly, I would say 99 Jews in the central command and um and the ss came with the trucks large and they simply took out the gypsies, the entire terminal is as it is and they took them directly to the gas chambers and the gas liquidated them and that's how we were.

I lived off gypsy camphor for a while and this is where I started to learn about life among the Austrians. What was it. It was tragic for people. I'm sure you'll probably ask me how you survived, too. I'll tell you briefly, you had to check the possibilities, you had to be smart and you had to get help. The three were in the gypsy camp. I don't know if you know the layout of our Switzerland. It's called Kim, but in reality it is an area that you see here that goes this way and there were products on each side, there were 31 buttocks in each one that was called cam because it was a whole Austrian camp.

On the other side of the left side were the scans of men people only men went to work every day on the other side of the gypsy camp it was what they call the hospital the hospital was for people who didn't go to work who got sick they put them there and they could I lived for a day or two or whatever and this was the next place today that came to the area called zazenki where people were gassed and increased. I noticed that I was with two of my brothers and the people from the men's camp who were working.

Coming back from work especially Sunday Commander and Canada would come to the fence throwing some bread through the fence if you knew anyone. I didn't know anyone, but I saw that this man comes every day. A man comes there every day. I entered the camp to the gypsy camp and I chose a man who took over from the other side for the job that they saw capable and professional, so I went to my two brothers and I said to them: "See, there is a man dressed in civilian clothes who comes all the days". pikema picks a group of men and takes over, I say when he comes the next day I'll see what he's doing, so the next day that man comes and starts picking people, so he's looking for outdoor mechanics, so I go to my two brothers who were staying alone on the side and I said I was looking for car mechanics so let's go register and my brother said are you crazy?

You won't find mechanics in our city of plots if you saw our car. We walked around the states, everyone opened the windows and looked what is this and here we are going to be outside, the mechanics say they will kill us, they will shoot us, I say, look, they could shoot us, but at least we will. He will die with a full stomach because the day you get food here he will either starve to skeleton or die with a full stomach, so I approach this man and I think the two brothers are afraid to get too close.

So they are in bed a little bit and they say and I say yes the three of us are car mechanics he looks at us my younger brother is two years younger I think he must have been 14 at that time I was 16 and my other brother was two years older , he looked at the three of us and tapped me on the shoulder and told me that you must be good mechanics, good ultra-mechanics, oh I said we can focus on we can fix alternative exteriors, he says okay, he got the group of us. and we went over to the men's side and immediately you got a soup, but now you have a thick soup here, you have a thin soup there, you have a stand, we said you could just spoon it in and it would stay. standing up you know it was a thick soup and then I said to my brother look at least now we're not hungry what's going to happen next we'll see so now we design and get the numbers I'm sure you've seen the The slave's numbers less mine is 18 651 so we got the numbers from there and we will take them to a separate part of the empty barracks where the shallow room was that you ordered to enter and get dressed and we put it in a product and you see that things have already been hanging from the ceiling, we already knew what was happening to the people, the other people that gas is coming out of the ceiling and we went in, we saw what is hanging from the ceiling and of course now the product the doors were closed and we don't know what it's if they say we're going to shower you now if we have to take a water shower or a gas shower so you can see a room full of men and they all stare at the shooter and trembling and looking at the ceiling what's going to happen and then, of course Suddenly, that thing opens and water comes out, cold water, it should have been, you saw those screams and the crying and the hugging, a group of uh naked men hugging each other because water was coming out, don't guess, uh, and before when we entered they told us to We undressed and tied our claws because when you come out you will get your own clothes back.

It wasn't like that when we went out the other door after taking a cold shower to get the clothes. You have people whose name was uh but I tried them on for the clothing room and they were also in prison. working and they threw you a pair of pants a jacket that's really good um if you're lucky you're a little close but otherwise you were short you have a pair of long pants if you're tall if you're tall you have a short period of time no what they picked up, they just picked it up from a pile and threw it away the next night and from there they assigned you to work.

I was assigned a dismantling site and an augmented site was a large area just outside the chamber tents where the platforms were located. They came every day, they opened three platforms with planes on them, I was in a place that was closed from the front line, they were Americans, British, Germans, Russians, sometimes you looked like in the photos on TV, how, um, uh , planes falling. explosions and flames others lost a wheel or a wing but the main thing they were looking for was gasoline, some that did not explode had gasoline inside and the boards for that have special men that we call meister German specialists who were They took it out of the board and tried to get a good look. which were damaged, the good parts, so they removed them and sent them to Germany to the factories where they were built.

They almost gave me a barrel and a hose and put me on a plane. That was damaged on one side but it was outside and they said to remove the gasoline with a scythe because the Germans really needed gasoline and first of all I was not used to that because it is understood that these are the vapors of gasoline and that makes you drunk or you get d

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but I had no choice uh if you stayed it didn't work they beat you up really bad but I didn't do it much because of the big Russia there were russians working there russian prisoners of war a big russian came up to me and said hey, what are you doing?

That's my job, your girl, give me, give me this, you go there, I was happy to give it to them, they were drinking that stuff, there was no gasoline, there was no vodka. but that was alcohol so I was happy to give it to him and I was assigned to the rig after they took away the good parts and then they cut the aluminum off and they put me back in relationship with the factories to dismantle the factories so I was assigned that and I started working with the big Russian because I was a little skinny guy and it was the Russians because the prison is a war and then when we returned to the countryside at night I said to myself I'm not going to live there for long, that It's hard to carry, you know, carrying aluminum parts, so I say I have to take my chances during the day, just before we check in, just before we go back to the chamber, I see a woman being evaluated, you know there was says man and That's what woman says I see a murderer walking with hair nearby a civilian walks a girl uh uh dressed in a nice blue skirt and a jacket and a white blouse with the color all blue and I say look at this skill she There must be someone here talking to a evaluated woman and everyone else steps on us and the clothes as she walked towards when I was staying the relative says Oh my God, I know this girl's name is Rachel Rachel Tippett.

I went to school with her. She lived in Florence, next door, two hours and I said, "Oh my God, if she's working with the evaluation, maybe she can help me, so I'm climbing, I'm trying to do it," I said, maybe when they get really close can jump go out and talk to her and she recognized me and then she says well the essentials should make sure that I stay not that I go out to stay they assume that they could have shot me because sometimes they don't interpret that we are trying to run either to flee or attack the evaluated woman or a sexual man and then she does that, you know, she passes by the day trees, she will practice and they passed and I said, look at my girl, my luck, I know her Rachel is her.

She couldn't help me at all and she continued working, but it didn't take long, about 10 minutes later, I say disguised, another girl runs towards where I'm working, they run past near the ditch and one throws a loaf of bread into the ditch. to me and she tells me when you return to the camp go to the sun the commander you know what to say the commander belongs to the commanders the people who will work in the guest chambers the crematoriums go to the guest chambers your cousin elec malenka is working in the commander divided and the commander's son had everything because when the transports arrived the Germans took the people but the good things when the transport arrived and especially from the rich countries of France, Denmark and Hungary they brought grapevines and canned products, bread with the one who didn't want to bother, with the dirty bread, so the ash commander took it.

It wasn't illegal, but they looked the other way because of it and she says when you can come back, she runs. to command on sunday your cousin elect malenka is working today well, i couldn't wait for the group to return to the uh, return to barack to the chamber the son the commander was separated from all the other people in barack 10 because they didn't want them to share what they did during the day with other people who could come from outside, so um, um, I went in and went to what we were receiving when we got back from work.

I have my slice of bread and our little butter soup. I didn't want the soup. I didn't want thepiece of bread. I want to take him to Sunder Commando where my cousin was because I knew there is a deputy commander or a lot of food. so I came downtown towards the door, so they were separated from the rest of the people and there was a door near the door that said I'm a couple, you know what that couple was, a couple, couples that they with a baseball . Bat is fine so I'm going to go up to him and I say, excuse me, I don't want to tell you, I say.

Excuse me sir uh my cousin is inside my cousin is Alex Malenka I would like to see him he says oh yes you have a cousin there and they picked that one up baseball bat and they hit me on the head from behind, I turned around and he chased me and he kept hitting me, believe me, the beating they gave me with the baseball bat didn't hurt as much as the pain of not being able to see my cousin who I could help give me food but I'm crying but I'm not going to leave there so a few minutes later two people come out dressed in civilian clothes, all the prisoners were wearing, you know, destroyed uniforms, these two come out and one is a big guy and so on.

I approach them while I'm crying and I say yes again excuse me and I was crying he says my cousin Alex Malenka is here I would like to see him he tells me choose my link like your cousin I told him yes he grabs me like this and holds me he tells him the other guy come in and take eleg out I want to see if he's telling the truth or not if you're lying if you're making it up then I'll kill you I say yes and I say yes I'm crying yes it's okay the other guy came in and comes out with two men one came in three coming out now this tall guy was a couple of cloaks on the commander he was a big a big man it was a big thing and three of them come out and this big guy holding me says okay show me which one is ellie and I'm crying and I say I don't know I never saw him there yes He was from a different city but I knew we have relatives in the other city Dublin and he maybe and I know about the family so one of those other two people tells me : what did you say is the man you are? searching I say Eric Malenko I say do you know Alec Malenka's father I say yes I know I'm not fed up my father his name is haya his wife and do you know the names of the family what are they doing they had a big reduction and so on after a while he says to that couple who knows it's okay and now takes me and takes me now the guy at the door the guy who hit me stayed standing at the door when they saw that they were being led away entered by important people he doesn't say anything my cousin takes me to his bunk listen to this and he picks up the straw zach and there's a grocery store down his throat sick you see this when we come home from work the day of the crematoriums in the gas chambers we're smuggling things and here it is so he says right away he gave me food that I ate and I told him that I took out two brothers, he also gave me bread for them and now he says where did you do? work today with which commander did you come and I told the street about the highway powers he says you are not going to go there anymore you are going to work with the sewer cleaners because he had a system in the woman's chamber and the sewer cleaners or so there were no sewers, they were bathrooms, so we were assigned to clean the bathrooms, so he says that when he looked for the couple for this group, this commander took him and said in the morning you end up here in my group and there.

There came the day when my cousin told me where my cousin works, the girl, where is she, she is working in the bathroom, she hides, he pays for her because they had money left over, gold, gold dollars, what they found with the people who bring them and Of course, he says that you are going to be the contact between me and my sister and of course, when I, my cousin, the girl saw me, she just knew my name and my name ruled in Poland and she had a brother next to it name and she was very happy and took me on the right day when they were working with a few girls who had bathroom privileges and from now on you will come here and then there was a group of twelve, we had a Rover again and there was a model a continue barrel shaped like a book, that's the car, the Rover and we were 12 people, there were three on this side and three on here pulling and there were six in the back pushing, so I was among the pushers we had a long stick with our own touchdown like a bucket, a smaller one played here and we came every time there was a bathroom, sorry, we took out the vase, we put it in the barrel, there was a sliding door, so let's go.

Take it out and there was one in the back and I bet you picked it up when we picked up the vase. There were two places that were quite large, either in the fields that the Germans took from the Polish farmers. and they used this as fertilizer, it was the season when it was not needed in the fields, so there was a big cesspool, a big cesspool problem as big as this, uh, this, pt, so now I had 20 of food protection because my cousin paid. the copper of that group to take care of me there was a privileged group every time we went out so now I uh before if I was starving for a piece of bread I had bread here to give because in what we did in that battle We built a wire to see inside to hang inside with each group that went out to work.

There were one or two depending on the size of the group. It was an evaluation of the men's book. Working with them with us. They don't want to go. Because? In the area around the prison, the smell is not very good, they did not want to pass in case they knew, they spilled and put on their uniforms, so they let us go while in the morning the couple had a report at the door. So and so with 12 people to live in and when we return the same thing now other groups or what they are called already know that they can check them to see if they don't bring some contraband some contraband thinking with us they don't reach the barrel the couple approached the window and they reported I said again they were afraid that they would get dirty so for us it was good we brought them every day we smuggled them in one day the union that I knew from the other came and told me I need a pair of shoes.

Could you organize a pair of shoes for me? I went every day to the crematorium in the guest rooms and so you could see after a transport arrived, there was a pile of shoes as high as the building and there was a pile of clothes and so I told my cousin that I was working there , he says I need a pair of shoes for someone, he says pick up a pair of shoes, so I picked up a nice pair of shoes and I dropped it, I brought it, he put it on. on her or on her bangs, which I did every day for Breto too and in the women's product just like in the men's product I was a supervisor also a prisoner a woman she is in charge of a section so if you put the bread in her pan One point, it wouldn't last five minutes, they would have destroyed it, but she was a supervisor and I had to share and give her a little encouragement too, so she saw that when Anna comes home, the girl It is the encouragement that is there for her. because because she is also going to receive her portion and this way it worked beautifully, it was very good um so after the war um people who were special groups or anyone if you caught a couple or someone who did it during indica in the camps a other people stealing food hitting things like that they would get paid for it if you heard them in one place and somewhere oh a couple a couple that person would get a very bad reward so Emily knows that he was invited every year to Germany to speak in Germany , that must have been about four or five years ago.

I'm in Germany and they invited me to the group. There were some couples who were in Germany. We would invite someone to dinner with a German family. I made a dinner for the few Holocaust

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s who came to Germany. I walked into a house and the moment I opened the door there was a man sitting in a wheelchair and he saw me, looked at me and said, "You're alive." You know what that meant in that sentence right away, the way he screamed and told the rest of the people, whether in that room or anywhere else, it meant that this person did wrong to other prisoners and that's why that he took a beating, a bad beating or they could have killed him there, so I stand there and I'm shaking and I'm looking at who's going to jump on me first, where I'm going to take the first hit from home and then it goes on.

Remember when I arrived at Auschwitz you were the first one who gave me a piece of bread. Can you imagine I started to breathe until this moment I didn't breathe I started to breathe and I said yes believe me I didn't remember at that moment I was far away but I said yes I remember you I remember that you came and He started giving me bread the first piece of bread I got in Auschwitz and giving birth to other people who show everyone mainly oh yeah How did you have bread to give away? We were all hungry in our shoes.

You had bread to give away, but then I had to explain what I'm saying. Now I was working in that role mode and it was dirty. The space we maintained was dirty. Before putting it in the water we look for a piece of newspaper, if everything works to wrap it a little, make it a little neater and when we return to the camp we open the upper door and I take out some of the bread, um, it wasn't like it came from the world from Astoria, but you know, hungry people will eat anything, we clean it, we wash it and then they all come, Noah, he knows us and uh, oh, the robot comes and then you give them a piece, you give them bread what you can and they were glad to get it, they cleaned it like I said, it didn't smell good, it didn't taste that good, but once it got down to the stomach it was already full and that's how I was working on it, I should still kill the Russians that moved in, They started moving to Poland and sent me with other people from that group to stutter.

Auschwitz was bad because people were murdered in the guest rooms, but in the guest rooms there was one guest room that was already closed, in fact a group of naked Hungarian women were already in the gas chamber and were taken out of there because the order came from berlin to stop guessing you thought auschwitz was a bad house it was good and you walked away there was no work we just sat down at the beginning we stood up so close to the dance campaign it's called it's raw it's called yesterday they celebrated yesterday There was just a little bit of what it was like there, they kicked us out at six in the morning and we stayed outside in the cold with a jacket and those pants that we put in our shoes this summer are called summer uniforms so we got in the group was 20 30 40 what we could, we all formed and grouped, you know, big dab and it was called a group where we hit each other with our body heat and then at night we went in and they let us get in. and we gave them a slice of bread a little watery soup but at least we were already inside and inside we arrived at the bank and there were four people four people who were working at the bank and then one day we were left without warning without anything we just got on the cattle train train and we embarked from there we didn't know where we were going, we know what we went through, what we learned during those years and after a few days on a cattle train with no food, just a bucket. of water in a bucket as a trailer and we were there, I think it was about three days from when we stopped until the trains opened and here we are in Germany and not far from Stuttgart, in a place called Thai Finger where we held the cards.

We got out of the kettle cars and had to walk the rest of the way from the train station to an airfield where the planes were parked. We were supposed to build a shelter at the airfield. It was near the French border and the Germans had their Knight station. Number one fighters for the protection of the great city of Stuttgart and second to protect Germany from the planes that came from France. There wasn't a single buttock. They put us in hunger. There were no buttocks. There was a little straw until they put in some bunk beds.

On top of that, the food they brought from a kitchen somewhere was something terrible, one was getting worse than the other and the management of the food, which by then the Germans were not doing it, not for themselves, so, of course supposed. we got very, very little of that and I was assigned to work again on the um uh I'm building digging like a trench on the edge of the uh of the airfield that others were building they were cutting down trees to make that where everything was needed to make the fashionable thing bigger, so they transferred me to a um, I ask, you know what a consultation is, breaking stones and you know, breaking the stones and then there's a machine that puts them in there and they break them into whatever size the builders need. small larger pieces whatever um and that's where we're working outside it was a great day it was November December January I was outside and there was no excuse for the snow or the rain or the cold or towards winter they need this storm in the core at the airfield where they were building the road, so we got to work, you came back in the evening from work and you had to take your shoes, you will wet and tie the shoelaces and use this as a pillow because there were no pillows, there were only some few people in the park playing and again I was lucky because we were walking from the camp and talking to the place called Rush Eraser through two of two towns and even though they were all Nazis there were still like and frank said despite everything just people still have a good heart for something like that so there was aJune, June, June 6, wasn't it June 6?

So she said, um, when you're there. American units parked on the road, the forest and the gates, wherever you go, you stop and go there and they say that they should help you with food, gasoline and for sure it is a beautiful place. I went and I started to go and every place I went, I stopped, They filled it out for me and no one bothered me, but when I said, the man, the officer said, when you get down from here, you'll come in, right around the corner there's a Jewish committee. there and tell them we sent you, they will help you.

I did it. I walked in and there was a big room on the wall, a big white wall, there were the names of the people that I religiously had to sign in with my name. although it is with an a that I took from tom in the name the first name is aaron arvada my younger brother I am detained I was speechless I almost fainted I was crying that at least one of my brothers is alone where is he in another vice president camp In Philadelphia it's called Munich, so I'm planning to go in the morning to pick him up and bring him to him and we'll be together while I stay there, there's a girl who comes up and says isn't that you?

She didn't know my name, isn't that you? that um you were that you came and there was a union that helped you with the food you were you were sick or I didn't tell you how that happened that I was sick what happened there and I say if he says that she is alive you know that she survives she is alive , is in Bergen, Belgium, oh, I tell you I'm very happy. I go back there and she says yes I'll go there tomorrow so I say could you please do me a favor when you see this girl?

Please tell him. You saw me that I'm alive and as you can see I'm already in my life and she says I'll do it later in the afternoon I told myself Izzy made a big mistake that was wrong what you did That girl did a lot for you and for you, since you have a motorcycle, your papers and he is asking someone. The least you can do is go there and then yourself, so I checked with my secretary, my scheduling secretary, and she said: The schedule was clear for tomorrow for the next day, so in the morning I went to Munich, I picked up my brother and brought him to Stuttgart and um and I went to Bergen-Belsen with a motorcycle and I remember that in the places of the castle they were destroyed and I came to Bergen person and there is a camp, there is a fence, there is an offensive on the valley around our, the man with the rifle, I said you can't go and no one can come in, no one can come out, so I showed them the papers or they saw the generalization of the signature open the door and let me in and there I found out where that is girl I'm not yet revealing who and where when that girl where is and which and which room of each product and then I went there, I walked in and I was very happy to see you she was very happy to see me now she says no yes yes yes they were there they were happy and They live in a room that wasn't much bigger than this one.

Here there were five girls and there was one. There was a leader, the biggest one, I'm sure, is everywhere, in organizations and schools, and in anything, there is always a leader and, She didn't like him from the beginning, she saw and says: "This man can't stay here, no, at first." She said, uh, you know, people couldn't go out, but people were walking in the afternoon, there was an anova and people were walking there, so I said, would you like to come down for a walk with me or turn on a light? On motorcycle, she said yes, I would go, but I see that there are five girls here who live in this room and we only have one pair of shoes between the five of us and today is not my day to wear the shoes five five girls a pair of shoes like that that today she says it's not my day to wear the shoes I showed her which girl has the shoes today I don't know when I bribed her my birthday she gave it to us she gave her the shoes one size fits all one size fits all yes and then we're going to do that right on the motorcycle and here and the people they locked up can't get out and they say everyone stays and who is this civilian dressed with a motorcycle a head on a motorcycle head with glasses that Is he what is he doing here?

So we finished setting up and then we went back to the room and now I asked him if there is a hotel or a hotel somewhere where I can sleep all night because tomorrow I am leaving here. I'm going to America I'm going back to America in America it's still okay, it's still America, it doesn't matter where I am, they have plenty of food, we're free, you see, I have a motorcycle, like I can go anywhere. place I want and you're still behind the walls behind a closed fence so I say tomorrow morning I'm leaving here back to the Americans to the Americans so the oldest guild says I don't like this guy he doesn't like me like I come to say thank you, he came here for something else, so I say I didn't have to travel a thousand miles for that.

It is also available in Stuttgart. Sometimes you can get that discount price. Tell me, go ahead, her. He says she just came out but she's still dead I don't like him he can't sleep here he's not going to sleep and he's not coming to set up so the girls got together and had a conference, they say but they can't take him outside it's cold he has to sleep somewhere so they finally convinced her and she agreed that I can sleep but not in the bunk beds with the gears I can slide on the floor I say look I slept for five years on the plane with my boots on the floor so one night It's not going to kill me anymore so I lay down on the floor without a pillow or blanket and she took the chair and put me on my head.

I sat there so much all night touching myself that I shouldn't move thank God. I had a bad hemorrhage and I didn't have to move in the morning I got up I looked out the window my motorcycle is not there someone took it and can take it there are two types of people in the camp, the prisoners and the British So the people said it must be only the British would have taken it enough. There's the office. Get up there and report. I went there in the opposition position. I showed you the documents. motorcycle now it's a new capital it starts so I say well, I'm going, do you want to go with me, yes, you can go if you don't want to go, I'm sorry, so now the five get together and the other four say don Don't go with him, don't go , it's not clear, she'll use you and abuse you and then leave you, yeah, and she took a chance, yeah, and now when we talk, you know, jokingly, you know, asking if you're, I'm so glad you came.

America, you didn't go to Israel with the other girls because when she came and stopped, we gave her a little apartment, yeah, and we got up and she moved there and she was living and living in the same city that we used to meet. They know each other, huh, so we started seeing each other more often and we started dating her and until one day I got down on one knee and proposed to her, I said: will you marry me? And that's again, she says before finishing the sentence yes yes yes yes yes she says now it took me quite a while to decide Am I saying you mean a minute?

So we've found it and the kids are the ones that love me and so after 73 years that we're married and they're looking, I'm still looking for those girls that were told not to go to court with me so I ask them everyone and I will also ask you if you find those skills let me know lately prove them wrong so I will bring you here and show the immediate family that not everyone is there so we have to thank God three children , three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.