I got up and I said, “What is going on?” And somebody said, “Just quickly look out.” And we looked out and all the SS were standing in roll call. And we were standing in there and watching and when the roll call was over, our old man, he was an old Lithuanian, he came in and he said, “Well girls, we are going to leave you here, the Americans are in Wolfratshausen, they are going to take you over, ’bye ’bye, all the best.” And the Germans marched out, and we were left. Well, the Russians, instead of going to open the gate, and they went, and the first thing they went, they went straight across the road to the beautiful villas where the SS used to live, and they went in and broke up the most beautiful pianos and chandeliers and it looked a mess. And we were sitting there waiting for the Americans, meanwhile we were hungry, so Rochelle, we decided, “Come on let’s go and get some food from somewhere.” They said, “Where are you going?” We said, “We are just going somewhere, to the villages, for some food.” So we went, her and I. There isn’t a soul anywhere. And as we were going out from the camp we had to go through a little wood, and we found all the SS uniforms, these soldiers had in their rucksacks their civil clothes and when they left us they changed and disappeared, so the wood was a very small sort of a thing, and we went across and there was a farm here, and we said “Let’s go here”, and everywhere the white flags were out, flying, so we knocked at the door, and somebody came to the window, an old lady, and then the husband, and they saw two women, so they opened the door and we told them that we were sorry to disturb them but would they have something to eat because we were awfully hungry, and she said, she was very scared that some man was behind us, so they pulled us in and said, “Come inside”, and they said well we haven’t got much but whatever we have we will give you. And we went in and we sat down and they asked us where we are from, what we are doing here, and we said “We are prisoners”, and they said “What kind of prisoners?” And I said, “We are Jews.” And one looked at the other, you know some of them knew that the Jews disappeared and there weren’t Jews all over in places like that, maybe they had no idea, and I turned round and I had the red cross on my coat, and they brought us a big bowl of potato salad. And we sat down to this and we ate, and they just looked at us, and I said, “That could we take some of this because she has got two sisters and I have got a sister.” So, she brought some bread out and she brought some potatoes out and we put it in our bags and we said thank you very much and we went. We went to the next place, and we got some more potatoes, and by the time we both had a bulging potato and we said, “Come on, let’s go back.” And as we were going we saw forty soldiers marching, and as I look at them, they were Hungarians, I recognised their uniform and their things … I said to Rochelle, “Look who is here?” in Hungarian. And this chap stopped and he said, “Hungarians?” I said, “Yes, what are you doing here?” says I. He said, “Well we went home for a holiday, we had a month off, and when we came back we knew that it was over so they didn’t want to go out to the front, so they came to this village and the villagers kept them hidden.” Forty of them. I said, “Where are you going now?” Well I went to Wolfratshausen to tell the Americans that we are here, and they said we are to go back to our village and they will come to see to us. So I said, “Where are the Americans?” And as I was saying that there was this jeep going round and there was this American star on it. Well, we started running into the camp, and by the time we got there were two big tanks there, and the inmates were on the tank and they were giving chocolates and all sorts, but never mind, Brocha and I had about 210 potatoes so we had what to eat, and we were free. That is how it happened. Unbelievable. How did you feel? Oh, you felt euphoric. I mean to begin with, you really felt euphoric. It took a couple of days until you realised what had happened, and as the days went past you saw that there were very few of us alive and communities and families were wiped up, wiped out, and it didn’t feel very good, one got depressed and guilty, why me … why did I survive and why didn’t so and so survive. Altogether it was a strange existence, it didn’t happen over night.