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Before Iong, we went down the stairs,
then more stairs. I was on the third deck.
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Over 2,500 prisoners...
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...twice the capacity of the ship...
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...were crammed onto the HMT Dunera...
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...supposedly bound for Canada.
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Two days out of Liverpool...
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...the Dunera was spotted
by a German U-boat.
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Suddenly, something hits the ship.
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The lights went out.
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This is the end of it.
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Everybody gravitated towards...
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...the stairway,
which Ied to the deck above.
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After about two minutes...
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...you couIdn´t get up there
because there were many...
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...peopIe going up the stairs,
we were just choking.
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SuddenIy, the Iights went on again.
1:16:52
Everybody stopped in their...
1:16:55
...steps and went back down.
1:16:58
The torpedo didn´t explode...
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...but l was under the impression
that the torpedo hit us sideways.
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lt just bounced off.
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Our luck, because if it had hit us...
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...all of us would have been finished.
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We were traveling,
going west for several days...
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...but suddenIy our outIook said:
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"´Something´s happening and we are not
going west. We´re going south."´
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We had no idea where we were going,
except it must have been Australia.
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We were starving daily.
They were treating us like pigs.
1:17:34
Being hungry every day,
peopIe were Iining up in the kitchen...
1:17:38
...to get an empty pot where the jam was,
just to scrape it out.
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And having one sIice of bread.
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The existence from one day to another
was worse than the day before.
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And we were on the ship
for almost completely two months!
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What happened on the Dunera?
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Years Iater, I´m thinking:
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"´This didn´t happen to me.
It must have been somebody eIse...