Jewish Survivor Harry Klein Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation

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Thank you for sharing… publish your book in English.. I would buy one.

[@lona689]

volume is poor.

[@margaretchadd7630]

I respect all religions......but if I want to pray.....I pray were ever I am I don’t. Have to go to church or temple or any building to pray to a God.

[@joziemolody3592]

I thoroughly appreciate Mr Klein's testimony. Wish the interviewer did a better job establishing time lines. Seems he was imprisoned from end of April 1944 until around Jan 1945. Also very much wish he was prompted to give more information on what happened to his family.he is one of the only testimonies I've watched that stated there were other people doing selections. It never made sense that so many people claim to recognize Mengele as the only person doing selections for millions of people multiple times at Auschwitz.He also stated blockaltesters were all Germans who had guns in Auschwitz so they could shoot anyone they pleased. Never heard of any prisoners being given weapons in Auschwitz or any camps beyond a whip or club. In the first part of the interview a few things hit me hard. One of the only things that pulled Hungary out of the depression of the 20s was trade with Germany and italy. Hungary was forced to join the axis and become an ally by the Nazis in 1940. Hungarians refused the deportation of Jews until the point that Germany would no longer tolerate it and occupied the country in march 1944. Mr Klein seems to gloss over this massive effort as if it was nothing and seems to relate that most Hungarians just hated Jews. He seems just as hard on all Germans after the war-he said Nazis were masters at deception and hiding things then seems to believe that all Germans, even those who opposed the Nazis must have known about everything that went on from the start and been involved.Mr Klein talked about buying papers to "legally" get out of any forced labor and how he lived with a family whose father was taken away in forced labor as if it was very benevolent of him to give them income. I'm sure they were desperate for money but I can't even imagine how kids or a mother would feel having to house and feed a healthy young man who bought his way out of the work their father was taken to do.He seemed very hard on the prisoners who were forced to get them off trains-implying they were unnecessarily mean and screamed at them to hurry. Those prisoners faced beatings or death if they didn't get new prisoners processed quickly. It's not like they had a choice or the Nazis ever left them unsupervised.