Bert Dan - November 17, 1982
Forced Labor at a Military School
Did you ever do--did they ever have you doing anything that was real work or was it all just...
And then--I'm getting to that--and then they kept us there for about, I would say about uh, four weeks. After four weeks they divided us up and they took like one hundred people, one hundred of us. They sent us to a, a bigger town, it is called Nagyvárad or Oradea. In Romanian it is called Oradea and in Hungarian it is called Nagyvárad, and there was a military school. And they put us in there in that military school and we had to take care of the cleanliness and the, you know, clean out the yard and clean out the horses. They had a lot of horses and they had all kinds of equipment, so we did the cleaning up. And in comparison uh, the way it was for the four weeks in the beginning we were in seventh heaven, you know, because we had our freedom inside. And that's--we couldn't uh, go out, they would not--we were not allowed to leave--that was like uh, prison. But at least we had peaceful uh, peace of mind and we were fed very well over there and we had no real problems. And the other hundred from our group were sent somewhere else. They were sent to ??? they call it, and there they were running a train, you know, running a, uh...
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