ABSTRACT
The German Army entered Radom on Friday, September 8, 1939. Rumors were rampant that the Germans needed workers for their factories in the Fatherland, and that there would soon be roundups of young Jewish men. The Germans paid the children well for what they were selling and were very friendly to them. The older people remembered how nice the Germans were during the First World War and so pretty soon they began to take out the goods from where they had hidden them, just as the Germans wanted. In Radom there was a man named Brenner, who had been deported from Germany a year as an Ostjude. The Germans began a systematic effort to slowly degrade and humiliate us and to weaken people will to resist—in short, to break people spirit. The Germans chased us out to the accompaniment of blows with rifle butts to a waiting truck.
