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Albert Fein - February 19, 2005

So you were de...deported from Uzhorod by the Hungarians...

To Kamenetz-Podolsk...

To Kamenetz-Podolsk. Do you know why they sent you there?

I um, we couldn't know why. We was thinking, you know, that they wanted just to, to send, send away the Jews for labor.

So they--so how did you get deported? I mean, what, what was the means? Did they put you on trains, did they...

On trains, yeah. This was on a Sunday morning, the police came and give us a half hour and took us to the police station, from the police station already there was uh, wagons.

Cattle cars?

Yeah.

Already cattle cars. How did they know...

Took us...

...where you were?

Huh?

Had you registered with the...

Yeah, they, they uh, find out our names, you know, and send us out to the railroad station, and put us in, in a cattle wagon, and made it, when they bring uh, enough people, you know, I don't know how, how many wagons was, three, four, or five, you know, there was not one family in a car--this was cattle cars.

So it must have been hot, crowded...

It was not crowded. I guess there was about twenty-five or thirty people, in, in a thing. No, nothing big in those small...

Was there food and water? Did they give you...

This was the problem. They didn't tell us this--we will need to have food and water--a bucket, you know?

So what did people do?

Yeah, so we thought, we thought they would give us ride, food, meal, because before this they was arresting people and taking them to Budapest, there it was a jail called ??? in Budapest and they kept them there. We thought probably they gonna take us there, so this is maybe ride for a couple hours, that's it, you know? I cannot tell you how, how long we was going from Uzhorod all the way to the border. This is--we didn't have--we don't have a whole, whole map.