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Emerich Grinbaum - October 3, 2000

Before you l...we leave Auschwitz, had you heard anythingin Auschwitz of gas chambers?

No.

Nothing.

Uh, yes and no-that there are gas chambers but uh, we were-wedidn't-we were-only with the Hungarian Jews we arrived. Nobody knew and wedidn't have contact with anybody uh, practically, you know. We didn't havecontact. No, not, we didn't have-although later on-I did not hear, I did nothear, but some other people he...heard this, overhead that huh, there is asaying, a very, very cruel in Yiddish because we asked the Polish uh, ear...th...thosewho were uh, some kind of supervisors you know, those, the people, oth...oth...uh...

So the answers are in Yiddish.

In Yiddi...And then one of-no, the good guy was, he talked withmy father and he told, I, I told you earlier, to tell us that we are older.He, he wasn't allowed to tell but he was...

That you were sixteen year old.

Older. Sixteen or seventeen. The other, the other, there wassome cynical. I didn't hear this. And they say in Yiddish, you speak Yiddish,and I have to repeat this in Yiddish because it sounds terrible and therewas a Polish uh, uh, pronunciation. ??? Now you are going to go into the doorand...

And out the chimney.

Somebody heard but I don't remember. Later on they told us, someother friends they heard something like that. But that's the, the one... Uh,because they asked what happening, are we going to happen with us. But withus we were taken to, to work. So we were taken to... We were, we spent approximatelytwo months with more in Warsaw.

The trip to Warsaw, the train...

No it was fine.