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We knew there were already Germans killed. We knew already it's
going on, so we just hoped that nobody unexpectedly comes to a
place where he doesn't supposed to come and finds out what
happened. If that is it, then we all killed and lost. So somehow we
are lucky with that. The...we killed these Germans wherever we
worked and uh we...everything went according to, to the plan, 'til
we came to the main gate. Now we could...people ran...ran all over,
so the whole camp knew already what's going on by then, so some ran
on the mines, got killed. Some people didn't ran at all. They gave
up. They didn't want to run. They just gave up. They, they just uh
waited 'til they get killed. They...but the younger people, most of
them, and whoever was courageous enough to run, they ran away. And
then a lot ran on the main gate. Now we started to run and we were
next to a barrack and then I saw [SS Sergeant Karl] Frenzel with a
machine gun, and he started to shoot. And more people were running
and I...I wanted to hold back because afraid for the machine gun,
and I figured, "Here is dead. Here is maybe something." So I pulled
Selma's hand and we ran through and somehow, some fell, and we made
it through the gate.
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