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"On April 28th, because May 8th was the, the end of the wat, the liberation day, but April 28th was his (Schindler's) birthday, and we wanted to do something for him for his birthday.

"So each one of the, of us, of the prisoners, gave a littel piece of their, our bread, and a littel por...portion of our terrible jam or marmalade, whatever it was, and, and, and margarine. And someone who must have been very, very, handy among us, I don't remember, I don't know who it was, made his a birthday cake. I mean, they didn;t bake it, but they just made it out of the bread, and the this.

"And we all gathered in the big hall, and Schindler spoke to us. He told us, and again, all the camp staff was there, all the woman SS, and the men SS, and the head, the commandant, the, the commandant of the camp, the new one, everybody was there. But he was absoulutly not afraid of them, and he told us, 'the end of the war is near. Please be, think good thoughts because you will survive the war. But as you survive the war, try to be human beings.'"