Today only ruins of the Schliemann factory where Morris worked remain but
from 1944 it was one of a chain of false labor munitions factories across Germany
sleepin alone produced 1 million anti-tank missiles a month for the
German army
conditions were appalling for the 2002 ish prisoners like Morris working here
with little food or protection against the sub-zero temperatures that winter
waiting to meet Robert is someone he knows a Piatra caught friend of his
grandfather Morris who also ended up working at Schliemann bad Cibona health
god it's amazing to see what this is doing Schliemann yes yes oh I'm so happy
but that we are here to talk to you about head father so how did my
grandfather Mars look when you arrived in the camp they did look like a human
being
recognize him you saw him yes you cannot imagine how he looked and
how County I'm retaining closest most oligo from them I didn't if I switch to
top it isn't in the physicists he lost Oliphant he didn't have any thought the
answer what was this place it's nothing here now this wasn't like this yes this
was the worst place I've ever been this is the worst place you've ever been
yes because even not giving any food and it was colder than here we didn't have a
cold we didn't have any shows or anything and
then we worked 12 hours and we didn't have any food this was to us nothing
just that and allowed me potatoes and the Smurfs
day after day it destroys you I know I I saw you and him later on in life when
there's a buffer always worrying about us all a family eating now I think I
understand while being full eating's it's important yeah this is something so
extraordinary to me that you have to strength to stand on this ground again
it's something I'm incredibly powerful thank you for telling this story I I
didn't know what it was like for him to be here that was the most important
thing that you are here and that you here what you what happened to your
grandfather because he never talked to you about it I really thought much about
it but a 2010 hunt unhealthy charge because people should understand water
we thought it was thought we suffered and what the Holocaust is about that is
the most important Thank You Ven they don't have to serve me I thank you
we should get warm
it's a very difficult thing to hear when he talks physically about how my
grandfather looked it Macy ate it and when he touched his eyes and his eyes
being sunk in it's unimaginable and also being hungry what they were fed
what starvation was what it is what it feels like and of course what the cold
is it's given me a sense of of that of what it must have been like for my
grandfather Morris to be here by 1945 with the Russians making advances for
the Allies in the East Morris and his fellow prisoners were transported to the
last concentration camp the Germans had duration stat in Nazi controlled
Czechoslovakia
Robert has come to the former SS officers at SH Leoben now a memorial
museum to meet historian Christoph torn field so do we know the date that my
grandfather Morris arrived it to resident we don't have the exact date
but at least we have a document where you can find that your grandfather
actually arrived at tell is interested we can see like he's come from
Schliemann before that Patrick Oh mm-hmm that's his birth date yeah well that's
that's his wrong birth date according to the census that we saw he was born in
the February 1923 here his put himself down as the fifth of December 1929 made
himself younger usually children would try to make themselves older because old
people and children were more likely to be immediately killed in extermination
camps so it was really bit odd why somebody would make himself six years
younger at this point in time in a camp on the 9th of May 1945 less than three
weeks after Morris arrived Terrigen stat was liberated by the Russians when the
Red Cross got there they discovered more than 30,000 prisoners like Morris weak
from malnutrition and disease among them were hundreds of orphaned children with
nowhere to go so here we have a overview of the underage minor survivors he's
right at the top number one for eight complete list of children from the
concentration camp now this is 1943 1945 in 1945 mmm
so he's born in 23 so he's potentially 21 22 and his on a complete list of
children which would explain this document here of course he must have
somehow got information that mm-hmm that it would be beneficial to him maybe that
gives him a better chance to get in any kind of recovery program that might be
set up after the war that August up to 1000 to
Regent stat orphans under 16 were offered the chance by Jewish charity
called the central British fund to come to the UK
there's the list of lists of children who arrived in Great Britain from
tourism Stan mm-hmm 300 was sent to Wyndemere in the Lake
District including Roberts grandfather Moses Mallon Nikki birthdate 18th 18th
this changed his birth date again yes yet another birth date do you think come
because there's a lot of people born in 1930 if you look you see that just about
makes them underage - none of the conditions of the central British fund
but I mean in my forensic experiment I look at this document straightaway and
it seems to me that somebody must have perhaps what you might call solicited
them to say just just give them her mm-hmm her birth date they're looking
for a thousand children tell me you're a kid and yes you know this is a dodgy
document okay but it's fine in the law in this circumstances Daughtry is
perfectly fine this is a good doggy mm-hmm yeah from sleep on to the Lake
District mm-hmm five months I mean I've been to the Lake District but not I
think to Windermere I think I need to go to Wyndemere and see all right yeah
Robert is meeting Harry Spiro who knew his grandfather Morris as a boy in
Piatra Cove and came over from the tour agency at camp at the same time you're
watching footage of the tourism stat orphans leaving in August 1945 for their
new life in Windermere when you landed and you arrived in Windermere I'm trying
to kind of imagine what my grandfather Morris might have felt first of all what
was your first impression well the first impression was really unbelievable
because we were not used to that people should be nice to us they knew exactly
what we went through and their aim was really to show us that life is worth
living and all they care is to bring bring you back to life in
Windemere the orphans from tourism stat were
housed in the cow Garth estate originally built for factory workers
it was here they were able to be children again
and this was a new life for you yes it was for all of us a new way of life we
never thought that we would achieve what we have we had each other we really were
like a family
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