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Leon J. |
“At the end in April 1945, we were in the worst of all the camps I stayed in, Ludwigslust, in barracks with no windows, only dirt floors, no kitchens, no crematorium to burn the corpses, we only got food left over by the Germans. There was also a typhoid epidemic. One day in May, the 1st of May, we heard in the evening the Germans running away. In the morning of the 2nd, we were told to assemble to get on the train. But meanwhile the guards disappeared. We saw a jeep with a trailer escape. Half an hour later, trucks came with American soldiers, and they started throwing us cigarettes, chocolate, food. Later I found out that the food was dangerous, since they mainly had canned food, and people got sick, it was too sudden.
We walked to Ludwigslust, and the Americans collected all the former inmates and put us into another camp to recuperate. I did not want to be in this camp. Later I was also in a French hospital...I saw Lager la francaise.”
Holocaust Testimony (HVT 1718)
Fortunoff Video Archive
for Holocaust Testimonies
Yale University Library