Richard Roberts

Richard Roberts, born March 31, 1913 in Vienna, Austria, discusses his family background, his friends, and antisemitism; having anecdotal knowledge of what was happening in Germany as late as 1937; misconceptions about Hitler’s plans; being in the second wave of people to be sent to a concentration camp on May 31, 1938; being sent to Dachau as part of the first major transport from his district of Mallnitz; the conditions in Dachau; being forced to kneel during the crowded train ride; being treated in the camp hospital for six weeks; pretending to work; the guards’ pastime of shooting prisoners; volunteering for food supply duty; bribing the Kapos; being sent to Buchenwald in September 1938; and his release in January 1939.