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Emerich Grinbaum - January 8, 2001

Your father was one?

Not, not at that time. He was later. And they put us in the barracksand they gave us water, they gave us some food. But they didn't bother us.Nice weather, we had a rest. So we, we, we gained some, some strength there.And in the barracks we were there for sever...uh, several weeks. But thenalmost everyday uh, the SS came and, and they selected those who seeminglyable to work and they took to different uh, camps uh, satellite camps uh,around. So everyday-almost everyday they took certain amount of people fromthe barracks. But at that time they didn't bother us. They didn't give us,us much food, but was enough water. Nice weather. And we were resting. Sowe were recuperating. Not everybody, because among them my father uh, duringthe long walk uh, he got an abscess uh, some kind of abscess I guess in, inthe foot and it was swollen with pus. So they took him to the Revier-to thehospital. That was a couple of weeks after we were there. End of August sometime.

Did you know what the Revier was? I mean, had anyone, hadanyone ever, come back from the Revier?

Not at that time, but uh, we, we, we didn't know much about itbecause we di...we were, we were staying there all the time in the barrack,that's all. We didn't communicate uh, uh, practically with anybody. So-andtwo or three days after uh, my father was taken to the Revier, they came andthey regarded us with my brother healthy enough to work and they took us toAllach.