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from his job and killed with the others who could not work (women, children, elderly, sick etc.). Once another worker smoked a cigarette and a German officer saw the smoke. He came riding around on his horse and demanded to know who did it; nobody answered. He then selected 10 “dogs” as they called them, because they wore tags with numbers, to be hanged, including
Radasky. According to his report, they were on the gallows with the noose fastened around their necks, seconds away from being executed, when another German soldier screamed: “Halt!” He possessed documents containing orders for three groups of 750,000 workers to be transferred to other camps; Radasky was part of that second group. He was subsequently transferred to
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At first, Radasky was forced to clear snow from the railroad tracks; as an efficient worker, he built up a good reputation among the German soldiers. After disclosing his prior career as a tailor, he was moved to a shop making jackets for the German officers. Meanwhile, his father, mother and elder
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Upon arrival, there was a selection process in which many people were selected to be machine-gunned in a field. He, however, was selected to be a worker and taken to get a number tattooed on his arm (128232). He reports being sent to work at numerous camps including Buna, Gross-Rosen, and Dachau.
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sister were all killed in the ghetto while he was sent away. His mother and sister were shot on the spot when some
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