Holocaust Testimony

The first interview that I listened to was by a lady named, Ursula Levy. At the time she was giving the interview she was living in Beverly Hills, California. Ursula was originally from a place in Germany called Asnapahook. She was one of the Holocaust survivors. She has some really interesting stories on what had happened to her, it is amazing that she is still alive. In the beginning she started off talking about her family and her first memories. Her first memory was of her dad being in the hospital, she was about three and a half years old. Her father had gangrene of the legs due to the torture he was put through while he was in a concentration camp. He had been exposed to too much cold. While he was in the hospital Ursula said that her father would even look at them. She believes that he was in a state of unconsciousness. He had passed away due to the gangrene. Ursula was very close to her brother. At first she was separated from her brother in their first camp. Then later they were put back together in the camp. She didn’t know how it happened but her and her brother George were made to sleep in the boys barracks. Ursula had survived the holocaust, on one of the trains she heard someone shouting, “We are free! We are free!” She said that originally nobody had listened to them. Once someone did finally look, they saw the Russians taking the Germans prisoner. They knew at that moment, they were really free. About one-fourth of the people that were on the train actually lived. But, once she did get off the trian her and her brother George got typhus. She said, “it was a miracle that we survived.”
Quotation: “We are free! We are free!” “It was a miracle that we survived.”