Bombing over Buchenwald

On the 24th of August, 1944, the Americans came over and they bombed Buchenwald because of the two huge factories. So they came over and luckily we were just out of range of the bombing
but we were there, these planes were above us, the markers were down and it was the most horrible experience to hear all these bombs and the incendiaries raining down and we thought we’re gonna get killed but thankfully it was the most precision bombing the Americans ever done because they obliterated the factories but they killed hundreds and hundreds of poor slaves who worked in the factories. They also killed many of the SS who ran the camp and they killed, yeah they killed a lot of people. Thankfully, none of us were killed. Some of us were hurt by the shrapnel that was coming down, some got cuts on them but we had to go and fight the fires. Now we got no shoes on and we were under escort by the Germans with their guns and we had to go and fight these fires. Our feet were cut, were bleeding from everything because we had to go in the rubble to try and save records, to try and help people who were trapped and so that was a horrible, horrible, experience for us and we had to do it because the German guards would have shot us if we didn’t. And while we were there, the Americans dropped leaflets into Buchenwald and they showed pictures of how the Germans were being treated in the prisoner of war camp and anybody who picked up these were shot by the German guards who ran around the camp. So we survived that.