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Emerich Grinbaum - October 3, 2000

Do you remember any impressions of, of this place? S...suddenlyyou're- you find yourself on a platform. What do you remember seeing?

I don't know. That was a nightmare and we were tired and wewere hungry, we were thirsty. We were hardly could stand on a life and theyput in a line to go and we're long line you know, many thousand people youknow, and until it stopped. Uh, really we didn't have to, to time, time andto uh, even to think.

Do you remember the chimneys?

No.

You didn't see the chimneys.

We didn't see the chimneys because...

Smoke?

Not much, no. You know why? Because daytime, daytime uh, we didn'tsmell any smoke. Night time people who got out they saw the, the, the uh,but in our barrack we were, we were-didn't let us go out uh, during the night.They had some places to urinate and all the, the other stuff. But we didn'tget out. And there was the blocks, the, the barracks were closed.

Before we go, do you want to-there were latrines then.

Pardon me?

There were latrines? Baden?

Latrines, latrines in the, in the barracks, right.

But, in the barracks?

In the barracks.

What was that like?

[laughs] Big latrines. Not, they are not latrines. In uh, daytimewe could uh, we could get out to the latrines. In the barracks they were notlatrines. They put some big, uh.