1. December 1944, Friday
Vist with Eva.
2. December, Saturday
The 4 women from Warsau got picked up by the police
3. December, Sunday
Seems that it’s been forever that I had a day off. With Eva.
4. December, Monday
5. December, Tuesday
Schmid is sick. Hasn’t been to work since Sunday
6. December, Wednesday
Training. With Eva
7. December, Thursday
8. December, Friday
2 hits (bombs) 8 Poles, 3 O.T. and 2 LKW drivers injured. Birner is being moved. So is Schror.
9. December, Saturday
No car. Take the O. T. bus and walk half way back. Eva. +
10.December, Saturday
Big 3-axel truck for jobsite. Eva. I am signed up for a training course. Talk with Eva.
11. December, Monday
Say “good bye” to Eva. Leave Wlochy at 2:50 pm, transfer in Kutno, Schrottusburg. After searching for a long time we end up sleeping on tables.
12. December, Tuesday
Ley, Beller, Lehmann are here and greet us. We are here much too early. We stay in the SS barracks. Movie.
13. December, Wednesday
Training: crawling, rolling, sliding. Tank.. (?). In the afternoon machine guns, all theory.
14. December, Thursday
Class. Grenade lesson
15. December, Friday
Training. Tank destroying techniques
16. December, Saturday
With SS. Company across the river Weichsel. Shooting. In the afternoon, change clothes, take a bath.
17. December, Sunday
Movie, close combat, sharpshooter. In the afternoon off, movie.
18. December, Monday
Attack in the West
19. December, Tuesday
Off in the afternoon. Drink beer and schnapps in the evening. At11 pm Ley tells me that we are going west and that our troop is leaving on the 20th
20. December, Wednesday
Leave Schrottusburg. At 8:20 am. Arrive Wlochy at 2 pm. Looking for construction team at post 9. Leaving at 11 pm. Visit with Eva. She is going to Vienna. Wolfram, the unit leader, doesn’t want to give me short leave.
21. December, Thursday
Leave Wlochy at 5:05 am, meet with construction team in Bruschkow. Leave at 8 am for Litzmannstadt.
22. December, Friday
Liztmannstadt, Ostrowitsch
23. December, Saturday
In Lissa, Hochwiesen
24. December, Sunday
9 am Kottbus In the rail car, no celebration, quiet night
25.December, Monday
Noon Bebra (Germany)
26. December, Tuesday
Bebra
27. December, Wednesday
Assla
28. December, Thursday
Assla
29. December, Friday
Assla
30. December, Saturday
Assla, Movie:”Glueck unterwegs
31. December, Sunday 1944
Assla. Each one of us got invited by a different family. I am with Teacher Ulmer, Friedrich Wilhelmstrasse 12. It was very nice. Left at 1:30 am.
BELOW IS ONE OF EVA FINKELSTEINS TRAVEL DOCUMENTS TO WIENNA USING HER FREINDS NAME AS AN ALIAS