Born: 1926, Lublin, Poland Describes conditions in the Lublin
ghetto [Interview: 1994] The Germans would round up a certain
area of the city, take out the Jews, beat 'em up, and ship 'em
someplace off. We did not know what what happened to these
people, what happened to the families, because we had no contact
with newspapers, radios--everything was taken away from us. So
we merely existed, not in our own home anymore. As the Jewish
population was getting smaller and smaller, um, the the Germans
had been giving the Jews smaller quarters to live. And because
they wanted them all together, they were forming what wasn't
even a ghetto yet, but an area what they would dedicate it for
the Jews. And they would put, like, four or five families in one
apartment. So that when they need to take them out, it would be
easier for them to have them all together. Well, we lived
through many of those actions. And fortunately both of my
parents were working. Working so that the Germans needed them.
Therefore, we were spared at