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We worked under military supervision. We listened to the radio, and the officers of the nearby military units were all pro-French, pro-West. Some of them even came to us and informed us on the situation on the front. In the last weeks an officer came and told us that the retreating Germans were closing in. He judged correctly when he thought they would execute us if they found us, the forced laborers. He said, ‘I’ll give you some carriages which will take you to the city, to Braila. It’s safer there than in the countryside.
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Interview
Samuel Izsak