Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

Joseph Gringlas - January 14 & 22, March 18, 1993

Labor in Blizyn II

Um, tell me a little more about um, working at, at, at um, Blizyn. Is it Blizyn?

Yeah, Blizyn, it's, uh.

It's not Budzyn?

No, Blizyn.

That's a different camp.

Different camp. Blizyn. That's located, it was fifty, I knew exactly, it was fifty miles away from, from Ostrowiec to that lager.

Fifty?

Fifty. Fifty miles.

Miles or kilometers?

Fifty kilometers.

Kilometers, so it was thirty miles.

Yeah.

Yeah.

'Bout thirty-five miles?

Thirty-five miles.

And the, the camp was surrounded with guards, with Ukrainian guards. Those Ukrainian--it was terrible. They were trying more harder to, to satisfy the SS to, to kill Jews or to do harm.


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