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Emerich Grinbaum - October 3, 2000

This is the fall, right? Fall?

No, no, August.

It's still August.

August. That the beginning, that's-everything begin in August.August 4th, 5th, 6th, 7-I don't know.

Okay.

And all of a sudden many thousand people-four or five thousandpeople. Somebody told that they found some water. So what happened. Somebody-whatwe had. We had a, a, a, a spoon with us and some kind of a plate or something.So somebody started with a spoon digging, some people. They felt that probablysome, maybe the, the, the land was some kind of wet or something, one place.And other people came started helping them digging there. So they got-theydug out a place there a lot of water, cool nice clean water in-on the surface.So everybody-there was, you can imagine what happened, but uh, during coupleof hours everybody got plenty of water to drink and we drink I don't knowhow much. And the interesting thing is that later I found a book which wasissued in Budapest by one of my very good acquaintant eh, eh, eh, eh, dentistfrom Munkacs. He lived in Budapest after the war and he described everythingwhat happened.

He was there.

He was there, no, with us. And he described even this event.I have this book in Hungarian. So. So we had at least for a day or two, gotsome. So then we arrived to another city, I don't remember and they p...theyput us in the, in a ca...in the uh, cars to take us to Germany-that stillwas in Poland-to Dachau, later on we found out.

So you were on a train.