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Joseph Gringlas - January 14, 1993

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I had to carry that and he watched me, I, how I'm doing it. AndI was so sick I got, af...after that I had temperature, I told you before,they took me out to work in that heavy, carrying on the heavy locks. So hetook me-it was, I was so sick I had the next, next day he had to, they hadto take me to KB, which mean Krankenbau. In Buna, being Kr...to be going,put in like a little hospital, it's a little hospital in the Krankenbau wasmeans, it means that you can't work. You gonna be killed. I don't know whathappened, in, in, I wa...in the Krankenbau there was steps going up whereto sl...lay down and I was, I had temperature too at that time. And I wentup, I-it's time to get up in a second on the top of the row to lay down, Ifell down completely. Uh, from the temperature, from the heat, well, the temperatureI had- was so sick, I must eh, I, I just passed out. I fell down and I wason the ground laying, I was out. I wa...it was just, yeah, I didn't know,they, I didn't know if I was existing, if I'm living because I passed outand I was laying. Anyway there was a Hungarian Jewish doctors in that KB,Krankenbau, they revived me. But after I revived, I was bandaged-I was hit-Ifell down I hit myself. So I stay in the Krankenbau a few days. And they letme out. And then after that-I don't know, something, by luck, I was assignednot back to that guy, to that murderer, that Kapo, his name was Otto Kapo??? Kommando Zwölf. I was assigned to a Schlosserkommando which is justlike a easy thing to do, after I was getting out. And that was like, thatwas the last few months in B...in being in, in, being in...

in Buna.