Hermina Vlasopolos - April 9, 1984
Fate of Fiancé's Family
...you know. The others had all sisters or mothers or children or whomever, you know. I had come there--well, it was my fiancé's family, and nobody came back. His sister was with me in the camp, but uh, she didn't survive. And she, she died after, after--there were many who died after they were liberated because they were so run down that they couldn't take any food...
Yeah.
...after that. You know, they were taken to hospitals and uh, maybe if the Americans would have come, you know. Otherwise--although this, this girl was, you know, I, I lived in their house. She was taken to Sweden and uh, she didn't survive. She was only eighteen. I mean, it, it was, it was a year and this was also much more than the Polish people or the people from Czechoslovakia or Hungary came in the last year of war in uh, the camp. Although, you know, all the horror stories that we, we lived them through and so on. But toward the end we had it easier than they had had it, you know. Actually they built the, the whole, the whole camp, you know. They slept in winter outside in the cold, they were decimated, you know, they were... It was, from the Greek Jews, only--the girls who came from Greece--only one single one survived. And she worked for the Germans. She was, she was Mengele's assistant.
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