Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

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Brenda Reiss - June 23, 1983

Yeah.

For what? To sleep in a pit--box and everything and thinking where they going to take you tomorrow, where you are going to be tomorrow? What they going to do to you tomorrow?

Did anyone try to escape from any...

You cannot escape because it was electric wires. In, in walls, walls are outside you cannot even escape. ??? I was hearing men ??? children couldn't escape they got electrocuted. And they show us--they took us out and show us not to do no more. It was not--I don't know, I don't know how I'm still--in my mind how did the ??? so many years still on my mind, I don't know. Sometimes we were--I think you would be very strong to go through this, very strong, very strong. Go twice to the, to the bathroom a piece of paper. You go once more you cannot do it. ??? Yeah. What a life.

Yeah. Now I got everything but I'm damaged. I got everything now, I got everything now but I'm damaged. Maybe I can't finish okay? I cannot take it no more.

Sure

I appreciate it very much.

Thank you very, very much.

I appreciate it very much.