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We found then when we started working, that the reason we were there, we were sent there to dynamite the ghetto, to destroy all the evidence, to dynamite all the buildings, to preserve as much raw material as you could find from transformers to cable, electric wiring, copper wiring, wood. And a lot of the prisoners polished bricks because those buildings, and... I happened to be, for a reason that I don't know why, but I was on the demolition team and we had to plant dynamite, dynamite they called it, underneath the walls. And then the Germans handled the plunger, the wires. We had to string the wires. And I remember a few occasions they, for joy rides, they'd push, push the plunger before the prisoners got out and got away from the walls. I got hit over my legs a few times. We didn't run fast enough because we had nothing, we didn't have decent shoes, and couldn't work that fast because we were not that well fed. And that's what I did for quite a while. And then for a while I did, and another group of maybe thirty, thirty guys, we had to find transformers in buildings, electrical transformers, and we had to put them on trucks. And that also was part of the war machine.
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