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Show OHI Isaac Rose l-t' - 29-87 s2: 40 LK I'd like to pickup with that memory you had - fuose women you saw withthe shaved l!ads. When you look back on Aus·ch ,, • l~ . _j l - , ; 7 what~re the p~ } c.cl impressions of the p1ace~n;~f_s·i4JLIN , f1' ): ...' .t_J IR Well, we had a general aidea about what was going on over there before we arrived at the place. We know that the camp was not a picnic - it was not a resort place, that people worked, ~d got sick. Some people stayed alive 1 and some people they - downon their health - became skinny and weak. 77 / J. / . •f . ,) J,- . tAim . They were just gassed. /T)Id T/IJ j· ,..,d' /' IJ Because -- the Germans didn't want to feedskeletons. They fed them simply because they . j t . L . I . ~ I; I ti.... --tr' needed them for the work force. ThO!c 'l"llS~ Ll:c:~, i t go to work, they 1\ just got rid of them. But this first contact withthis area, the train coming in early morning of dawn. This, what you call, Auschwitz area . . It was a kind of shock. Like coming into a different world. Some thing out of the ordinary. Something t. .' , . . v-V 1~/} you didn't imagine. But f,.E... er on, whenday started breaking, and I 1} we unloaded and stayed in the round for avv(l• ·:_~., . And marched into the showers, we - ah - got already figured out~ ihis is it. f{othing we can do about it. LK Did you go throughTbe selectionprocess. IR I don't remember. I don't think so. I don't think so. There were some older people with us. As a matter of fact, in the box car, wheRe! was some 80 other people,there was an older couple. Maybe the pare~ts of the men who was an official, VJf.;. .J/1> a prisonerA some kind of official infhis labor camp . |
