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I was born in Rastenburg, Germany, but spent most of my youth in Hungary and Romania. My first encounter with the Nazis was when I was sentenced to a labor camp. Our captors abandoned the camp and moved us from Yugoslavia to Germany on foot. Once we arrived, we were put into cattle cars and sent to Auschwitz. From there, I went to many camps - I was never tattooed. After the war, I remained in Germany and worked as a police chief at the site of Bergen-Belsen, which was made into a displaced persons camp. I helped reintroduce survivors back into their normal lives. When I returned to Romania, I found my brother and father. I’m not a hero, merely a survivor!
Rastenburg, Germany
Ernest Braunstein