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My name is Gisela Schulz. I live since 1977 in Northern Ireland. I was born in Berlin in 1934 and was already 11 years old when the Russians came into our house. This was on the 25.of April. I am the oldest of 5 children and had to take quite a lot of responsibilities for them. Therefore my memories are very accurate.

One Russian was going to shoot my mum, because he wanted watches, but we had none.
She gave him our only alarm clock, which did not go well down with him. He throw the clock to the floor where it burst into pieces and he then pointed his rifle onto my mums head.

On the first of July we got the Americans (what a difference) and on the day before my father was taken by the russians when they retreated into their part of Berlin. He was missing until 1948 when we got word he was in "Buchenwald", the terrible concentration camp.

He was released in February 1950 when the camp was finally closed. Not many people are aware of the fact that the camp was in use as a prison for that length of time.

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