Edith Kozlowski - August 19, 2010
Blizyn II
So, late summer, fall 1942.
Forty-two...
You leave Radom and you go to Blizyn around that time?
Probably '43.
Forty-three, okay. So you stayed in--you stayed in, uh...
I'm sure from August, for sure to December, I'm sure.
Okay.
January, I don't know.
And you went--you and your sisters all went?
Never were apart, for a day. Except that my sister was sick, had typhus in Auschwitz. And I thought that's it, but no she came out of the hospital.
Okay and you're working in another clothing factory?
Not, not in Auschwitz...
No, no, no in Blizyn, in Blizyn.
Yeah.
Yeah. And you're sewing...
Not sewing...
I'm sorry, I'm sorry...
No sewing--that's not...
You're sorting...
It's for, yeah...
Sorting...
It's for them everything. No sewing.
Okay. So, what were the conditions like in Blizyn? Were they--was there...
Dirty...
Dirty...
Dirty, dirty, we were on the floor. No bunk beds like, in Auschwitz. Uh, the mice were running, oh my goodness, on us terrible.
Husband: Rats
Rats, rats, not mice. Your right honey.
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