Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

Michael Opas - [n.d.]

Religion in Buchenwald

Were you able in Buchenwald to have services like you did in Auschwitz? Religious services?

No, Buchenwald, no.

You weren't able to hide it and do that?

No, no, no. No, this was different.

Were there medical experiments in any of the camps that you were in?

Yeah, yeah.

Did you know about any of them?

I knew about in Auschwitz...

Mm-hm.

...about Dr., Dr. Mengele...

Mm-hm.

...Josef Mengele. He did--he performed all kind of experiments.

Did you personally know of...

No, no.

...these things while you were there? Okay.

No, not me.


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