Freda Magnus - July 22, 1982
Liberation
You were saying ninety percent?
From the--this people that I have been in the camp--in this working camp and ninety percent died because there was--you should excuse me--lice was like this. Lice...
Lice.
...you know what lice is.
And what camp was this?
Bergen-Belsen.
Mm-hm.
And no food and they was hitting us and, and, you know, it was terrible in this camp. The most terrible thing was is we didn't have where to lay--we lay on the floor and it was very dirty, no food, and I, I, I became--I got typhus--got sick. You know, didn't tell the stories when we had to go to, to make to the toilet--shit, excuse me--they had to--you had to go with several people together, not when you wanted and there was a big hole in the middle of the back yard and everybody just sit down with the back--I don't know how kinds of people could do--manage a thing like this. It's unbelievable to understand that how people with right mind--they should be the worst people--how could they do such a thing go and see it and make these people do it? I couldn't even do it to my worst animal. How could they do? And the way we, the way we sit and the way we ate and I, I got typhus and I couldn't already swallow nothing. But I was lucky--two days after I got typhus I almost died--the English people liberated us. And when the English people came they took me as a sick patient to the hospital and that was how I--they liberated me. I survived and I said--I don't--I say I am not going back home. They ask me--if ??? and I wanted to go to Israel but they sent us to Sweden.
Sweden?
Yeah.
Why Sweden?
Because Sweden took people in.
Was this a DP camp you were in?
Yeah, sure, DP camp, yeah.
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