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Emerich Grinbaum - January 8, 2001

D...d...did they bomb the camp?

No.

They never, never...

Yeah but, they bombed surrounding. Matter of fact, I want to-Iforgot to tell you a very strange experience. The new uh, the Christmas Eve,December 24, that was the huge bombing by Americans or British, I don't know,of Munich. We saw. Munich was burning. We had such a pleasure to, to watchthis. Didn't bomb the-Munich was, that was not very decent from, from anotherChristian to-during, but they bombed. I remember that was the biggest bombingwhich we saw. It was close, it was ten, fifteen kilometers. We could see itburning, so. So from February uh, from February, we had very little food.Not much work. Some people even didn't go out to work. My father survivedsomehow because he was- didn't work. The-we were getting worse, worse, buta lot of people died. But we survived somehow. And matter of fact, until,until it was beginning-and, and then in March they started coming new andnew people from other places, from Buchenwald from other places. You know,because the front came from both sides, from East Russians from the westernand we were some, somehow on the middle. So the camp became bigger and bigger,I mean uh, concen...more, they put more people in the barracks. And middleof April, sometime, the 15th-20th of April, I don't know, the eintreten andthey took several hundred, maybe more people to the train station. Now itstarts whatever he says. So, I don't know. We had many thousand, instead ofone thousand, they gathered a lot of people. Those who arrived they were halfdead. Mostly dead who arrived from other camps. But we were still alive. Sothey put us on a train. And they took us somewhere.