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not think she was with us all the time, a dark-haired woman marked
with a black triangle (a criminal prisoner).
I have no idea why on Christmas Eve we were taken to the
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so-called Jugendlager where the Christmas feast was prepared. I
had never before seen tables, covered with white tablecloths, so
plentifully laid with fruit and other delicacies. I remember bringing
my Mom a beautiful, big apple from over there, and I ate it then
myself of course. It was the first apple I had the opportunity to eat
since the outbreak of the war!
As the front approached, probably at the end of March 1945,
we were transported by railway, and partially on foot, via Berlin, to
Königs Wusterhausen .
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The regime in this camp was slightly less strict but it was
equally dangerous to get sick there. Meanwhile, I had mumps with
a high temperature and I still had cystitis. I had to take care of
myself somehow because my Mom was working in a sawmill at the
time and she could not be with me during the day. Nevertheless, I
recall this camp as better than the previous ones. Perhaps the end
of the war, approaching fast, made our guards less cruel. Anyway,
I do not remember any abuse of prisoners at that time.
But we were not lucky enough to be liberated there. Soon
the camp was evacuated deep into Germany, to Oranienburg-
Sachsenhausen . There was already total chaos around. Transports
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with prisoners departed every day, we did not know where to. One
day, after a short, several-day stay, our turn came. However, we
were not evacuated by train, but rushed at night, on foot, escorted
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by a dozen or so soldiers . There were Hungarians among them,

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Jugendlager (German) – youth camp
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Königs Wusterhausen – German concentration camp about 40 km south of Berlin.
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Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen - German concentration camp between 1936-1945.
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The above-mentioned Arolsen document indicates that the evacuation took place be-
tween April 20th and 22nd, 1945.
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