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Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Salzburg

2000-03-03

1943

And, as ever these Russian workers, who were always called "Pan", "master," really ridiculous, but "Pan! The shell, "and God knows," the bottle "and so on. And coming so with incredible patience. And I had from my father, from World War I heard that the Russian medical support - no one is so delicately handled the sick, as the Russian medical support, for example. So, that was good, but so was the first time when it was me pretty bad, and then we were then, in wagons, we were again a little more, and once they sent me was because a Bridge blown up because we had to be loaded onto trucks. And then after the bridge back on, and they have forgotten me in the car, and I could not move, yes. I suddenly realized, it is always quiet and I am alone here, and then I started to shout, and that was, me and - well, finally they have heard me and got, however, and it was holding the cattle car further, and that was, well, in cattle cars on straw, and - was not very nice, but my God. And I remember when we came to the first annual hospital behind the front, and then they were holding for hours around the corridors. And then came the first head physician, and he was very nice and made me, then, is first of all get a little care of me. And then, and then I have only told him: "Please, promise me that you do not here to give away on transportation before I can in a real hospital car." Did I have, I had it, that this horrific cattle cars I so tired of the drafty and hard and, uh, but well, I mean, they had pain anyway. I was not squeamish, but, but I'd just like enough, and he has also kept it! And then, and then, my God - it really is, for me, nothing could be done. The shot was there and it really could not be repaired, it could, you could just wait until it gets better. And, uh, ah, then came, then came the lice still in the Union, and, just terrible! But, but well, I could not sleep all night, at four clock I'm finally asleep, and then at five, half-six they have an already drilled the thermometer under the armpit and then it was the vorbemit Schlaf.Also, uh, but, my God, it is so, as a young man to keep even a bit, and that's part of one of them, I mean, I was not excited about it, but it was, was already not good, but others have of course, much more terrible suffering, and have had a lot of terrible, pain. So then I was then, with the first hospital train I had just then luckily Silesia, they have in all Polish cities, they have been offered to us, so to speak, but everywhere were the hospitals full, and they are fortunately equal to by Silesia, and from there I then added my sister, at the moment, where I, it was said, was sitting transportable, has brought me my sister to Innsbruck. Then I was in another hospital, and from there I started to study, and then I got a regular sabbatical leave, and then came a new phase of life.