Pater Jozef Regec

“We thus moved to Auschwitz to work. We were building barracks there, and two months later they moved in the Jews and they took us to Dachau. I had been accepted as a car repairman, and I was thus repairing doors, and whatever was needed; I was a young boy.”

“I still believed (that I would survive), and I was telling this also to my friends. There were two brothers, a bit older than me, about thirty, and one of them was not able to abstain from eating and he died. There were many people who were crying in pain and dying because they had eaten meat from UNRRA. Only later it was discovered that they should not have been given meat, but only chocolate and things like that. I was thus stuffing myself only with chocolate, and it was not the kind of chocolate we have now, but it was very thick, I don’t know how they made it, but it was so thick that you could not just break away one piece, but we had to break it apart with a stone.”