Edward Linson - November 10, 1981
Being Ill in Camp
Can I ask you about--you said you, you were a part of the medical experiments.
Yes.
How did that happen?
They took you, they, they put your name--your number--a name--they put your name you got to go to the--they call 'em over there uh, Krankenhaus. Haus is buil...
Building.
...building.
Yeah.
Kranken...uh, it's uh, like, like a, a little...
Infirmary.
Infirmary, yes.
Just, they just picked your number and...
That's it, you got to go.
And then what happened?
Then what happened? I was uh, lay down over there and they was uh, performing what they want.
Were you in the hospital after that? Did they then put you in a hospital?
No, no, no. I was a few days over there.
Do you know what they did?
Uh, I don't want to know what they did. I am not interested.
Did you go back to work right away?
After, after a few days, yes.
Do you remember when that was?
I cannot tell you.
Nineteen forty-four, '43?
It's something like this. Date--we didn't know date, just a crazy this uh, this uh, uh, what his name? Primo Levi. Maybe he knows because he got--like I said, he was not a--he, he didn't smell, he just got a few months. What do you think he was uh, maybe ten years over there?
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