Regina Cohen - April 18, 1982
Moving into the Nuremberg
Mm-hm. Anyway, what happened to you--then you--to get back to where you were...
They took us, okay--in Nuremberg when we were bombed out they took us to this specific place, somewhere in the city uh...
How...
...in a big building.
Do you remember a date or--was this into 1945?
This--no, it's, it's--yes, it's '45. It's uh, it's still cold and it's wintertime and I don't remember whether it was January or end of December or January. Approximately...
Mm-hm.
...let's say it's about that--towards that time. And we were taken to this huge building and uh, it was--there was no heat there. Uh, food, uh, we were getting some food but I don't know where from. We slept everywhere--on the floor, some cement, on pieces of newspaper. Uh, we were there a very short time uh, just days I would say or maybe a week. Uh, could have gone into middle of, maybe first week of March or maybe into the middle. And uh, uh, groups of us were taken while we were there, in this particular building, taken to uh, cleaning up the rubble from the bombing.
Mm-hm.
Uh, hauling, any kind of very--very uh, menial work because the factories were being bombarded and there was just no working at that specific spot...
Mm-hm.
...or place or job but it was everything else. And uh, uh, there I got kicked in my forehead, just above my eye. See this, see this mark?
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