Survivor Testimonys

Alfred Caro
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By: Billy Essick
I decided to go with Holocaust survivor Alfred Caro born July 27, 1911 in Sampter, Berlin. Alfred lived with a mild conservative family of 4 boys and 3 girls. His dad was a normal person a butcher, and Caro did normal things like he had a hobby of boxing. Although being a Jewish family, Caro’s dad loved German people; he would make his kids sing German songs, which he still remembers today. Many Germans, Polish, etc, were jealous of Jewish people, could be what possibly started the Holocaust. Nazi police came to the Caro residence to inform them that they needed Alfred for a “political investigation”. Confused because he had never taken place or even had views on the political side of things, so he decided to hide like any other would do, though he came out of hiding fearing the police would take another fellow family member. Caro is taken to camp Zachenhousen which used to hold Jahovus witnesses; he explained that there were mostly young men his age there. The place was surrounded by towers with suited men with guns, as well men on the ground surrounding the premises. Being told if any one crosses the line you will be shot, well to test limits someone walked across the line where he was shot. Caro was in Zachenhousen for six weeks, and he compares being treated like a slave, Jews were beaten kicked, spit on, made fun of, starved, it was worse than being a slave. Caro’s mother still confused on what had happened to her son; she began to investigate down at the police station. She talked too many until she talked to a former child hood friend of Alfreds who was highly ranked in the police force. Caro and many more Jews were released not to long after, though not for sure why.
Quote: “You have nothing, you have your life when you’re lucky, and when you are not lucky you are dead. Maybe the people that were dead were lucky, than the ones that were alive.”
Quote: “We were treated like slaves.”

Ursula Levy
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By: Billy Essick
This is a testimony overview from Ursula Levy born May 11, 1935 in Orslabrook Germany. Her father owned a textile business that had been in the family for a while, though she was unsure what her mother did and she only had one brother. Her father and Uncle were sent to camp Zachenhousen where they were beaten and exposed to very cold temperatures, both ended up with GangGreen and died shortly after they were released from this camp. Levy doesn’t remember much but she does remember some important things like her mother side of the family was Liberal and her dad side of the family was very religious. Afraid of her children’s lives, Ursula’s mother contacted an uncle of hers in America; he agreed to get them out of Germany. Sent to a place with nuns, her and her brother and three others were the only ones that were full blooded Jewish. Those five kids were sent to a concentration camp, where only her and her brother the only ones that survived. The things Jewish families would do to keep their family alive are unreal, as it worked for the Levy family. Her and her brother split up in concentration camps, her brother promised he would come visit her as he did on Sundays. She remembers that in her camp they were forced to take off all her clothes and throw it in a big pile and the wind blowing sand would hurt her legs; they were to where the clothes the Nazi’s gave them. They were saved due to the home in Holland and the friend from the hardware store who told a lie about their background that saved them. If he had not it was to Auschwitz, that’s where the Jews from their camp were being transported to.
Quote: “If we were to go to Auschwitz like most of the children and people, we would have been killed right way because of our age.”
Quote: “ I saw people being loaded on to open trucks they would sing, they would sing…..a Dutch song.”