, and willie bruckman was very important of the czech family camp, willie bruckman was the head, was the overseer of the czech family camp, he was german, he was not jewish, and this way, the ss could deal directly with him, rather than deal with some of the jewish people in the camp. so he basically was the big kid on the block. he was the big guy on the block. and he was in charge of all of the jewish prisoners in our camp. and when i met willie bruckman, he asked me, in german, if i was interested in being his messenger, being his sidekick, so to speak, and running messages to the ss, and so forth, and taking care of his clothes, and cleaning his shoes and all this kind of stuff, and i said yes. of course, obviously, this put me into a very secure position in the camp, being under the umbrella of willie bruckman. so i worked for willie. for several months. and i was able to get better food and better clothing, and i could share some of the food with my brother and my father and mother. so i was in a good position because i was working for willie bruckman. well, shortly after we go

being under the umbrella of willie bruckman. so i worked for willie for several months. and i was able to get better food and better clothing and i could share some of the food with my brother and my father and mother. so i was in a good position because i was working for willie bruckman. well, shortly after we got there, i must tell you, i didn't mention this at this point. but shortly after we got there, i would say within two weeks of when we got there, i realized, me as a child, 12 years old, i realized that this was an extermination camp. we had, there were four crematorium with huge chimneys puffing huge amounts of smoke, heavy smoke every day, all day, 24 hours a day. and there were, i knew that there were people arriving at the platform every day and disappearing. and i knew that this was an extermination camp. i could smell the burning of the human bodies, there was ash all around us. if the wind was blowing in the right direction from the crematorium over to the czech family camp, we were literally covered in ash. we were covered in human ash. so, i knew and th