Rose Green - May 21, 2008
Life After Liberation
And you're reading from a, a document that was given to you when your son was born.
When my son was born and I was ready to come home, I was, I was--I, I have to go sometimes home, and I couldn't stay there. I stayed there three weeks--after, after my son was born, three weeks after that. And I was thinking of coming home--they didn't chase me out or anything. I was just thinking of coming home looking for my relatives, somebody. I didn't know if somebody's alive or not. And uh, so, uh...
Where were you at this point?
I was in here. See? ??? by Zittau it's on, almost on the border of Czechoslovakia, very close to the border in...
In Germany.
In Germany, yeah.
Okay. And they gave you this...
So...
...this kind of discharge letter.
The doctor wrote me this letter actually for the gov...for the people who I might encounter because I didn't have any money, I didn't have any hotels or whatever, you know. And the trains didn't go--you know how it was. They, they broke--they ruined the, the trains...
They were bombed, the railroads were bombed.
[interruption in interview]
They want to do you a favor.
So they gave you this...
The doc...the doctor wrote this out--I don't know if the secretary or the doctor himself. And it says here ??? that I came out from the Arbeitslager the 11th of May ???. I know it's not in English, you don't know German. ??? It was a hard deli...delivery. The patient ???.
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