Polish Victims — Oral History

When we was working, there was so many, uh, people, were Poles and another nationality: Italian, French, and the...we don't talk much because, uh, German was like bosses and watchmen, was few watchmen with, uh, with, uh, weapon [so] that you, you don't escape, and, uh, we just have, we can't talk, uh, much. If you, if you talk right away they see you and, uh, you get, you get hit, so, uh, we, we just have to, uh, work. We just, we talk to each other very, uh, low. We, we talked to, we Polish, yeah, but not they hear, not the German hear. And they always, uh, they watch us what we do good job and if you do something wrong, then you get, uh, you get very bad beaten with the shovel or with the rifle. If, sometime, uh, one day I have to bring, uh, cement from, uh, a train, the, the two guy take it, a bag of cement and put on your shoulder and you go put it to the storage. You have to run. Uh, when there was rain, there was mess. Then if the bag of cement break, then you get beaten, so...it is not your fault but you have to be careful, so they was very strictly about, uh, sabotage. We couldn't do sabotage in, in Germany, because, uh, even if you try, it cost your life.