Hermina Vlasopolos - April 9, 1984
Transport to the Last Camp
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I, I, and uh, coming home I said, you know, we are going to leave. And it was funny that I, I never have any kind of premonition, any kind of foresight or so on. When I arrived they said, transport prepare to leave, because they had chosen us before to go somewhere else...
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...and selected among us. And coming from this hard work without food and so on, we had to get into, to go into--this time there were not covered, these trains. And it was pouring and the, the, the rain froze on us during the night, you know. And people had diarrhea and, in front of those, of those guards and stuff, everybody they had to go to the bathroom right there with everybody...
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...you know. After two days we arrived in the last camp which was in, also in Czechoslovakia, it was in uh, in the Sudetan...
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...land and it was, there were a lot of Germans. It was an enormous factory. It was a plant, you know, and uh, we arrived there also in April. So it had been one year since the whole thing started. And we arrived at dawn frozen and dirty and, and desperate. And they gave us also, they gave us a warm soup at the arrival. And uh, there were only so many beds, but there were two shifts, you know, so one shift was a day shift and we were the night shift. So when one, the day shift was at work, the night shift slept. It was very hard to sleep because there was a lot of noise in the camp and, uh...
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