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No One Spoke Out
Posted on May 9, 2008 at 11:23am —
Terezin Concentration Camp
This file is my Holocaust presentation on the concentration camp Terezin. I hope you enjoy it.
Terezin.mov
Terezin.mov
Posted on April 30, 2008 at 8:51am —
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HHRC Michael Klahr Center Dedication May 25, 2008
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Ernie Easter
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The bunks that we slept in were three tier. Most of the time you shared the bunk with another man. The bed bugs were terrible. Sometimes I would wake up with terrible cramps in my legs because I wasn't getting the nutrients I needed. Sometimes men woke up in the morning and the man next to him was dead.
In the mornings we would get a piece of bread and brown water that they called coffee. When working at the IG Farben plant we would get "buna" soup for lunch, which was watery and had some rotten vegetables and/or potatoes. The meal at night back in the camp was the same watery soup and maybe a piece of bread. It was never enough to stop the hunger pains.
We had roll call in the morning and in the evenings. Sometimes at night they would keep us standing outside for hours no matter what the weather.
I think a better term for Auschwitz III is a slave labor camp. I worked at the IG Farben plant where they were trying to produce synthetic rubber. I dug trenches, did some construction, worked in an engineering shop where I was used as an interpreter because I could speak my native language French, German, Italian, Spanish and a little English. We worked 12 to 14 hour days. We did not get paid for our work - hence slave labor - and we did get a meal - the watery soup.
I am not Jewish. To be honest I was and am an atheist. I have no Jewish relatives. I was arrested in Nice because I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the United States, Berg is sometimes a Jewish last name, but in Europe it is not commonly a Jewish surname.
You asked me wonderful questions. Please share them with your fellow students. This September my memoir about my times in the camps will be published. I talk very candidly in the book about what happen to me, so some of the language and incidents might not be appropriate for someone your age, but I guess that would depend on your parents' and teachers' views on your maturity and their guidance to help fully understand the "adult" and raw content.
Sincerely,
Pierre