Milan Krbavac

„Cleanness first, major strictness and famine. Once a day we would get a piece of bread which we had to share among eight or sometimes ten of us. - Only that to eat for the whole day? - From 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., 8 days per week. - Did you have any medical help? - Some of the people did, but the next morning they were stiff- dead....It was better to die than going to the doctor's. There wasn't any medical help.... We didn't know anything... We would just walk on our ways and eat some grass along it. - Who guarded over you? - We were guarded by the Tot unit, common soldiers. The Ss soldiers used to lead us with the shepard dogs. - Were you beaten and maltreated? - Beaten... when they would start beating, they wouldn't finish until one was dead. Only strictness. Two Polish men ran away through the sewer. They managed to go through it, but the Ss soldiers with the dogs caught them very soon. They brought them back to the camp and wrapped a rope around them and hung them on a willow tree. We had to walk around them twice, so we know we would finish the same way if we tried to escape..."

"As soon as we arrived there, they shaved our hair. Not just head hair, but all body hair, everything. Then, we went to the other room with a big tub, desinfection tub, with chlorine and everything else, I don't know… We had to dip into the tub entirely. The ones who feared of getting drowned, they didn't wet their head. A German would call on those men and he made them turn their backs to the tub. Then, the German pushed them inside. They stayed inside, got wet, and went outside. We moved on to the third room where we got a shirt, a pair of pants, blue ones, and a number. It was on Television. My number was 330630 and off we went to the shack. We didn't have anything in there. Nobody gave us food. We just sat and did nothing. There were bunk beds which the Russians called the koikas, two by two by two, so six of those. That way they could put more people inside. On 15 August – on The Assumption of Mary holiday, the English men found out that the factory was connected to the camp, so they bombed it. They didn't damage the camp. Just some pieces of stone landed onto it due to big pressure. Those stones could pierce the devil himself. We stayed there until 5 September. Again, in front of the shack, there was the roll call, the men- count, every morning and evening."