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Emerich Grinbaum - January 8, 2001

Sure.

Because I don't know, maybe I'm talking too...

No, no, no.

And then after-he, after awhile, a couple of weeks they invented,they invented a new way some ol...elderly people, they put in a separate,separate block, barrack, elderly people. We didn't know what going to happenthem. At that time-and we didn't have selection. In other camps, many othercamps there selection. Periodically, when people came and they sent to thecrematory. Not in our camp. I don't know. I don't think that in Dachau. Mostlyin, in Auschwitz around some other places. We didn't have selection like otherLager, because he was in very poor, poor condition. But we tried to bringout some additional food. So they put some elderly people, several hundredelderly and weak people to the barrack. We didn't know what's going to happenwith them. They give them very little food, but didn't send out to, they didnot go out to work. They had some uh, work to clean the, the camp and some,some, something inside you know, which was much easier than go outside. Andthat's what he did. So we were relatively in good, relative at that time ingood shape. The second luck which was probably the you know, probably t...tosurvive we had to have a series of lucks, you know. The next luck was thebest whatever can, could happen in the camp. The camp uh, uh, Führer,the Lagerführer was uh, Meyer, his name was Meyer. They took him probablyuh, to the front because occasionally you know, these guys were taken to thefront. And another Lagerführer came, his name was Busch. Can you imagine,Busch.