The blog of the Karl family

German Passport to travel to France before the start of the war. Foreword This testimony written by my grandfather Gustav Karl which tells of his liberation from a satellite camp of Auschwitz starting on 18 January 1945 and his way back through Poland and Ukraine until Odessa where he was repatriated to Marseille on 10 May 1945, and Lyon on the very next day. This short journal (1300 words) is very lively and full of all the nice foods he found, was given, and purchased along the journey. The text, handwritten with a pencil in Sütterlin, the gothic handwriting learned at school back then, was almost impossible to read. I recently had scans transcribed into readable German and I translated it into English. The oral language is left as such and all approximations are mine. Most of the facts below come from administrative archives including Bad Arolsen archives. He was born in Walsdorf, a small village near Bamberg in Bayern in 1906. He was a cattle dealer in the