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They sent us to work. I was given...

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first of all, officially,
to work in a munitions factory.

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And at the same time, I was teaching,
as I told you, like at Staszów,

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we were teaching Jewish kids
in Buchenwald.

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It’s amazing, it’s unbelievable.

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[Interviewer] How many children? 

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I think it wasn’t... 20, 30,
40, 50, it varies.

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But you had quite a few children,
Jewish children.

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There were children from Hungary,
from Romania, from Poland.

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We were teaching them Yiddish,

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without any books.

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Everything was from memory.

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I was teaching them music, Yiddish songs,
whatever I remembered.

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There was big risk.

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Because everything was done
against... the Nazi policy.

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Absolutely.

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Schooling, teaching children?

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It’s the same thing as...
You could get death penalty for it.

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And once, while I was teaching together
with Mr. Strigler

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on a Sunday morning,
he was teaching in the so-called bedrooms,

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between the bunks,
there were also three-tier bunks.

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In between the bunks,
the kids were sitting on the floor,

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I was sitting on a bunk
and so was my friend

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and we were teaching them Yiddish,

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Yiddish history, Jewish history and songs.

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I hear a noise.
I hear it from the front.

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He says “Achtung!” which means
“attention” in German.

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So we shook in our pants.

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We didn’t know what, in case God forbid
if they open the door and they see us

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with the kids, then we’re all going to die.

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Since it was on the main floor, naturally,
because there were two floors,

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they opened the doors and they jumped
out of the windows, all of them.

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And it went peacefully by and nobody
was caught and we continued.