Alfred Caro - Survivor Testimony

Ashley Speer

Mr. Neuburger

Eng. Comp. 102

26 March 2012

Alfred Caro Testimony

            Alfred Caro lived in Berlin, Germany during the war.  His family was being investigated by the German police for political reasons and told that one of the men from his family had to go down to the police station to answer questions.  When he arrived at the police station he was asked no questions, but instead transported to a Nazi concentration camp called Sachsenhausen along with the other Jews that were being investigated.

            In the camps, they were marched out of their barracks every morning to work.  Life in the camp was miserable.  They were constantly beaten and were forced to sleep on the floor.  For breakfast they had water, for lunch they had water soup, and for dinner they had peas or bread to eat.  There were flecks that marked the size of the camp and whenever a Jew crossed over a fleck they were shot by a machine gun that was positioned at every thirty yards.  Sometimes to German soldiers would tell the Jews to turn around multiple times to make them disorientated and the Jew would fall over a fleck so they would shoot them. 

            Alfred went to Sachsenhausen in June 1938 and was released from the concentration camp in July 1938.  Alfred was held in the camp for six weeks before being released.  After being told he was free to leave, Alfred came home and joined Hicem which was an organizaation to help Jews to be freed from concentration camps and help them emigrate.  Hicem gave him a passport to France where he took a train to after being taken to Belgium.