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Golda's Stories of the Holocaust Part II - Amendment Section 2 – Bergen-Belzen Chapter J – The poisoned water I find some clear water in a ditch. Two weeks before
the end the Nazis felt something new in the air. Therefore they
poisoned also the water Everything was poisoned
now. At that time we didn't
know yet on the coming liberation that was delayed so much. I had to search for
good water to drink. Very thirsty, I
went to the long deep ditch that was in the camp, and saw in its bottom shallow
water. I did not know of
which quality was this water. The main point was that they were not from the
Germans. I tied a rope to
the bottle that I found. I lied on the belly,
and I lowered it down. With this bottle I lied
so for about an hour. It floated on the
water and was not filled. My mind was blunt,
maybe because I was sick and weak. I had to insert a
stone into it, and he would sink and get filled. I lied on the belly,
holding the rope with my healthy hand, for a duration that seemed to me
eternity. At last, a drop of
water dripped inside. I went with the
water to Eva. We drank them, and saturated our thirst
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