Joseph Gringlas - January 14, 1993
Transferred to Monowitz (Buna)
Same uniform.
uniforms. A night before that, I don't know how we got that-there'sBuna. Buna was Auschwitz too, but Buna was a big factory, I.G. Farben andwe and there's a factory. I forget something we heard about forty trucks ofload of people from Buna came to Birkenau. I don't know how-it must have-thatnews must have come from somebody from the, from the crematorium. They weresaying they came from Buna to Birkenau, forty trucks loaded with, with theJewish people from the, from Buna camp to Birkenau to be gassed. Probably-Iassume they couldn't work anymore. They couldn't use them for work anymore.So that's got me into my mind that they needed people to replace those forty,that's why the selection of us. They selected us to go to Buna. And afterwe marched from Birkenau to Buna it was about ei...eight kilometer, from onecamp. But if something was to get out of Birkenau, their crematoriums, wassomething. I don't know, it was, anyway it wasn't working a long time to getout again but something to get away from it. Cause I, I was picked to go towork. And I was sent to, went to Buna, came to Buna in Buna was my brother,what was left, remember I told you in, in Ostrowiec he was separated?
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