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Emerich Grinbaum - January 8, 2001

Squatting.

Squatting. Squatting and then jumping.

Jumping.

Jumping. Different things. And if you didn't jump enough, whodidn't jump enough they were beaten. Many different things.

There are pictures of this in the Dachau book.

Dachau. Now that was in Allach.

But it's a Dachau punishment.

Punishment. And many different things, many different things.The only, only positive thing was that uh, the food was better than in Warsawor in Auschwitz. So that, that was until, until uh, October, approxi...thatwas almost two months because beginning of September-no, five, approximatelyfive weeks. The eve of Yom Kippur happened another miracle to us. Me uh, my,my brother. Uh, for some reason there, for some reason in couple of weeksmy brother managed to come back to the day shift. I don't remember how. Sowe were again together. He was working, but in the-especially in the nightshifts, people were dying like, like uh, uh, flies. You know, because veryhard work and especially in the night shifts. Not all-you know, because thosepeople on the camp who worked in other places they were not that bad. Butthis par...particular uh, BMW uh, place was, was very harsh. So. And, andOctober, be...at beginning of October, I don't remember. There-I know thatwas eve of Yom Kippur. Like usual, we got up early, I don't know, five, sixo'clock, we had some tea, so-called tea and they about to leave the camp.Because inside the camp we were walking, but we get out in step that was underSS guard with, with weapon. So before we about to leave, the Lagerälteste,Lagerälteste that was you know, he al...was also a, a, but he was usuallya Gentile. Uh, like a Kapo but he was the chief. Came up, looked upon us,"Du! Du! Du!" The whole group of men, hun...hundreds, hundreds. So they tookout approximately twenty youngsters, including me and my brother. We werethe-among the youngest. "Eintreten!" you know, that's eintreten, you know.March. They took us to the kitchen. Part of the kitchen uh, which we had touh, peel potatoes. So it turned out that day before there was a SS came andthey checked the work of the kitchen. Including the Kartofelputzers, whichmeans the uh, uh...