I took my striped hat with me to America. In Maidanek when we stood in line for appel, (role call) the Germans give the command for prisoners to put the hats on their heads" "Mitzen up, mitzen down." We do this many times, in the morning and at night. Everybody has to put hats on at the same time. Some prisoners were sick and not able to do this, so they got beaten, sometimes to death.

Leon Faigenbam
Barto-jeya, Stavis, Boodjin, Maidanek, Plashuv, Mathausen, St. Valentine, Abenjee, (1939-1945 )