Morris Kornberg
Nació: 1918, en Przedborz, Polonia
Describe la llegada a Auschwitz [Entrevista: 1990]
And they'd start the beating right away, from the Gestapo and SS, they have been stayed around ... and whoever passed by, didn't make any different, it was no other choice than beating, beating, beating. And finally we came into the camp, and then we saw already those, uh, concentration camps uniforms, striped ones. We all saw Kapos, and they start to tell us, "Here is Auschwitz." They told us, "Here you cannot live long. If you live a day, or you live two days, is about all how long you live here." The same way, they kept on chasing us, beating us, chasing us, beating us, and I went, they took the pictures of me, like a criminal, from all ends, odds and ends. They took my clothing, they told me to put it in a bag where it was written my name. Then we went, they shaved our head, then, and always beating, wherever you go, every step. Then we went to disinfection, it was a, a huge big bowl full of chlorine, water with chlorine, they ... us in over there and this meant disinfected. Then it meant that we should go for clothing, and we, the same way, wherever you went, wherever you step, you made, kept on beating and beating.
And they'd start the beating right away, from the Gestapo and SS, they have been stayed around ... and whoever passed by, didn't make any different, it was no other choice than beating, beating, beating. And finally we came into the camp, and then we saw already those, uh, concentration camps uniforms, striped ones. We all saw Kapos, and they start to tell us, "Here is Auschwitz." They told us, "Here you cannot live long. If you live a day, or you live two days, is about all how long you live here." The same way, they kept on chasing us, beating us, chasing us, beating us, and I went, they took the pictures of me, like a criminal, from all ends, odds and ends. They took my clothing, they told me to put it in a bag where it was written my name. Then we went, they shaved our head, then, and always beating, wherever you go, every step. Then we went to disinfection, it was a, a huge big bowl full of chlorine, water with chlorine, they ... us in over there and this meant disinfected. Then it meant that we should go for clothing, and we, the same way, wherever you went, wherever you step, you made, kept on beating and beating.
Morris se crió en una familia judía muy religiosa, y participó activamente en una liga deportiva sionista. Cuando los alemanes invadieron Polonia en septiembre de 1939, el pueblo de Morris fue severamente dañado. La familia de Morris fue forzada a vivir en un ghetto, y Morris fue asignado a trabajos forzados. Después de un periodo de encarcelamiento en Konskie, un pueblo cerca de 30 millas de Przedborz, Morris fue deportado al campo de Auschwitz. Fue asignado al subcampo de Jawischowitz. En enero de 1945, Morris fue forzado en una marcha de la muerte y fue enviado primero al campo de Troeglitz, un subcampo de Buchenwald y luego a Theresienstadt. Después de la guerra, se quedó por un tiempo en Checoslovaquia y Alemania antes de emigrar a los Estados Unidos.
— US Holocaust Memorial Museum - Collections
