(upbeat music) (static crackling) (suspenseful music) (TV popping) (suspenseful music continues) (curtain rails rustling) (poignant music) >>I don't think there is a survivor alive today, if someone would ask him, "Did you believe you were ever going to survive?"

None of us will tell you that we we're going to survive.

But we always...

Some of us had always that small glimpse of hope.

Maybe, maybe, just something, some miracle that will happen to them, and that they'll survive.

Well, the miracle happened to me.

The miracle was I found a new job.

When we were assigned to this job and when we started working, unloading, first, the incoming inmates.

And after the Nazis got rid of the inmates, 10% to the slave labor and 90% to the gas chamber, then we started to work with their belongings in a huge kind of a warehouse.

(poignant music) And there was food in those bags, in those valises.

So we, on the run, would eat the food.

If you got caught by the Nazis, you got beaten.

But they wanted our hands to constantly be moving and doing the work for them.

(poignant music) So, that is how I survived.

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