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Benjamin Fisk - November 8, 1982

The conditions there...

There was another thing over there...

Yeah...

...you know. There was a young Jew--a young fellow--I was already nineteen or twenty, he couldn't have been more than sixteen--good looking young boy, you know, blonde, you know, about this tall--not too high. I was working in camp you know for some reason he went into the barracks that I was living in. And they, you know, they came into the camp and the German, he was homosexual he was living with the boy, you know. I didn't know what to do, you know. And the German he, you know, he was a prisoner since 1937 already. Really nice guy you know I didn't know what to say, you know, he didn't see me. I just opened the door looked in and see him but I just looked away. One day for some reason he must have seen me or something and he was reaching out the food--German, you know, the one that was living with the Jewish boy--the homosexual they sent him back from the army you know he was in concentration camp. And after that he came, you know, he came to me--for everybody he was mixing it up, you know, ??? everybody had a potato or whatever, you know, when he came to me he gave from top three, four, five just a little water. I didn't say nothing maybe three, four days. And this German, you know, that he had from the camp came in once and I said, "I want to talk to you." He said, "Fine Tischler, tell me, you know, what's going on." So I told him what's going on over there, he won't feed me. He said I don't want ??? with the other guy. He said it isn't right either, you know, but I'm the ??? you know? He says, Fine, don't worry about it." He said, "You go," and he were standing there and watching, you know, and he stays. He said, "Don't worry about it," he says, "I'll take care of it." He stayed there and watched the guy, you know, he was dishing out. When he came to me and gave me a little bit of water, you know, from top. He went over, "Get the hell out of here." He pushed him away and said, "You ain't going to give nobody food anymore." They told him to go and they send him away from the camp. I didn't see him. Two week later he was gone.

In Bismarkshütte, how long were you there? You said...

Mmm, we were there--after I got sick, maybe three, four, five months altogether and then, you know, they send me away you know to uh, to, to uh, Auschwitz or whatever.