TRANSCRIPT:
Pollin:
So when you got the message, you and your group, your friends, no more schools, no more school, that's it, you have to go to work
Turski:
We had to go to work not only because there was no school, because there was no possibility to get a one soup daily. This was the main reason to get some, ah, money.
Well listen, sometimes also I am recalling David Sierakowiak and I can share with you. Ah, in the beginning, and all the time it was not only a matter of poor food rations, rations, yeah? It was also a matter of money to buy them to purchase them. Sometimes people used to buy them, sold part of the ration, of the ration, in order to be able to buy out some others, some in addition, not only the black market, just the food coupons. So it was a matter of money and of security because after all, if there was, we understood it just from the beginning that if you are not employed it means you could be, you could be, ah, useful for the Germans you are in danger.
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Marian Turski discusses his deportation from the Lodz ghetto to Auschwitz- Birkenau in August of 1944.»
