Judy Schreiber - February 1, 2013
Fears While at Theresienstadt
What do you think the fear was that you had, the main fear that you had at Theresienstadt?
You know what, I don't think I understood it. I think that I absorbed all the fear that was around me.
Uh-huh.
And I always sensed my parents fear. I somehow knew that they were very fearful and I had an enormous fear of losing my father, because I think on some level I was aware of the fact that he was somehow keeping us alive, or at least I thought that. That my remaining alive depended on him remaining alive.
Hm.
And uh, I'll tell you a, a very interesting connect to that. Um, when I was probably about five and half, this was closer to the end of the war, near the end. And they began to uh, I didn't know that, but I've come to understand that's what was happening. They began to increase the transports out of Terezin to Auschwitz and other places, because they had too many people there.
Mm-hm.
And uh, people were dying left and right of uh, dysentery, hunger, this, that and the other. Somehow my dad's name was put on a transport to leave.
Oh.
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