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Immediately upon arriving in Mielez everyone was tatooed on
their right wrist with the letters KL. This stood for
concentration camp in German. Mielez was an aeroplane factory
like Budzin. This camp was also manned by Jewish overseers and
they also had "money deals" as in Budzin only not as much. There
was no negotiation for job assignments in Mielez. Everyone was
assigned to the factory. There were limited opportunities for
special privileges. Luckily people weren't starving. You could
survive with your rations and you could also buy food but you
could not buy jobs. I was assigned to the night shift working
with aeroplane bodies. I liked my work and I was good at it. I
also saw work as a way to survive. A good worker was valued and
not as expendable.  One incident related to my job in Mielez
stands out in my mind. My job was to drill seven holes into the
body of the plane. Through an