Holocaust Testimony The first interview that I listened to was by a lady named, Ursula Levy.

At the time she was giving the interview she was living in Beverly Hills, California. Ursula was originally from a place in Germany called Asnapahook. She was one of the Holocaust survivors. She has some really interesting stories on what had happened to her, it is amazing that she is still alive. In the beginning she started off talking about her family and her first memories. Her first memory was of her dad being in the hospital, she was about three and a half years old. Her father had gangrene of the legs due to the torture he was put through while he was in a concentration camp. He had been exposed to too much cold. While he was in the hospital Ursula said that her father would even look at them. She believes that he was in a state of unconsciousness. He had passed away due to the gangrene. Ursula was very close to her brother. At first she was separated from her brother in their first camp. Then later they were put back together in the camp. She didnt know how it happened but her and her brother George were made to sleep in the boys barracks. Ursula had survived the holocaust, on one of the trains she heard someone shouting, We are free! We are free! She said that originally nobody had listened to them. Once someone did finally look, they saw the Russians taking the Germans prisoner. They knew at that moment, they were really free. About one-fourth of the people that were on the train actually lived. But, once she did get off the trian her and her brother George got typhus. She said, it was a miracle that we survived. Quotation: We are free! We are free! It was a miracle that we survived.

Holocaust Testimony #2 The second interview that I listened to was by a man named William McKinney. He was interviewed on 31 March 1997. William was 74 years old at the time he was interviewed. He grew up in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He born in Union town, Pennsylvania. WIlliam McKinney was in the U.S. Army. He was a Sergeant for the army. His duty was to learn Morris code. He was sent to basic and spent most of his days just spending time learning Morris code, drilling over that. William didnt have one said job, he was a combat supply and did a lot with weapons. One thing that the interviewer spent a lot of time asking about was how William McKinney was treated because he was black. William would travel from city to city in France. He said that the U.S. had a 205 mm that shoot accurately for 23 miles. It was very nerve racking for him knowing the weapon advances and being close to these weapon coming from the other side. When he was in Germany he went to the concentration camps and saw all of the things that were going on first hand. He saw where they would stand the jews on the hillside and shoot them to fall into the pits. There were thousands of Jewish refugees in these concentration camps. In the concentration camps he saw lampshades of human skin. He saw all sorts of people that were dying because of starvation. They were told not to give them K-Rations because they hadnt had anything solid in so long that if an undernourished person ate it, it would kill them. McKinney saw two boys digging in the trash, he gave them food and they stuck to him for the two days that he was there. William said, I wanted to adopt them. They had orphanages prepared for them. The war finally ended on May 8th. When it did he said, I felt very exhilarated that the war had ended.

Quotation: I saw lampshades made of human skin. I felt very exhilarated that the war had ended.