A Holocaust Survivor speaks and blesses at the Kosel

i was five years and eight months on the german i went through all the seven champions again i was in the concentration camps within the ghettos and i was beating i was starving i would at the dead march in the dead transport you know what the dead transport is they put us in they were in cattle trains you know cattle trains they put us in the kettle trains they put in full maybe 100 people or more one a cup the other they close up the doors we didn't know where we're going we didn't know what's up there was no light there was not nothing there was no sanitation nothing we were there day and night day night going for a period of time we don't know how long and a lot of people died there a lot of people were sick got sick when you were all bunched up in a and a cattle thing this was almost at the end of the war this was not this was not after i went through five years in almost six months this was at the end sex seven months this was at the end of the war i was in the cattle train they took us on the cancer day to take they took us to nowhere we didn't know where we're going and finally they opened up the cattle train one day two american soldiers came and they told us you're free you're free we don't know what three is we don't know what anything is and they took out they brought the ambulances they took the sick people out there were that people there the diaper people and and and they took open up a wagon with full with food there was a full footwork from the red cross was full foot they didn't give us a stitch for 10 days not a drop one day they opened up the wagon i was was out i went out there let us go out on the front of the i picked up grass you know what grasses i ate dress i ate potato skin i found one time was nothing what to eat for such a long time after after they opened up the wagons people went out they took open up the wagons and they took they took all the food that was in there and the wagons and stuff eaten we didn't need for such a long time people got sick a lot of them died a lot of them i wound up in the hospital i was critical i was three months in hospital and then and then after this i i was completely out of religion i did not i was away five years and eight months out of religion happiness i was in near the closenbc and he and he got his boys there to to take me in and to talk to me and to bring me up and that's why i came back to religion any questions how old were you we see you're not broke up 12 years i was old i was 17 almost eight years when we were walking that was five years and eight months under the germans i wanted to see your numbers yeah here's my number one eight four eight five wow 26. you're the only survivor of your i've only survived my whole family would you live very few of my town after the war i found five of my friends from the same from the same town all of them all of them [Music] i left about a kilometer away from the camps before the war then they send us away to get us 12 years when the war broke out do you ever feel like one day it's done and there's no point in finding a good question we have absolutely nothing nothing in our mind that will ever liberate it our only only i don't say i'll have it later but but our piece of bread was was was that what it was it was so you know the bread was all food was so we were starved you know it's not a week or two days it's months it's years so we got everyday heavy bread this was like today i don't know what you would call it people were dying from salvation you know after working hard every day all day and and beating and a lot of people they were hanging a lot they hung a lot of people in the gallows a lot of people were beaten to death [Music] it's all story it's plenty plenty i never saw her [Music] camera