Solomon Lapidus - Capture and Escape
Transcript: When the Germans caught us, we all were in the uniform. [ ] After a while, we tried to escape. When we escaped, we took off the uniform and we run to the woods. [We ran] to the woods because the camp was in the woods. Because there was so much...from Minsk to Smolensk, and to Minsk, it's woods, wood, wood, wood. [ ] But every commander, you know, had to [go] in a group, up front, and they used to come, the Germans, to count, and ask, "Juden? Commissars? Up front!" It means the Jews and the commissar up front, why? And the commander, my commander, he was the only one that knew I was Jewish. The rest of them, they didn't know nothing. What is your name? No speak English. You understand? That's it.