rged barbed wire. This must be the Auschwitz death camp. We were assembled in long rows and marched between the troops of the SS soldiers into the camp. We were marched up and down a broad avenue for four or five hours between posts of barbed wire with a huge sign, EXTREME DANGER, HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL WIRES. We saw guard towers high above us. We saw men with machine guns inside them, All the men walk in silence, we are pretty sure this must be a death camp. Back and forth and back and forth, they just kept us in motion. They told us we were going to be given some new clothing, but before that, we were sent into the showers. . We started washing ourselves. We got out and stood there. We were deloused because we had lice. One guard stood there putting some kind of a chemical under our arms, and one shaved our heads. Then we were given some prisoner's uniforms, very similar to the uniforms a prisoner would wear. We were issued wooden shoes, we didn't get the sizes we normally wore, we had to make do with what we got. Then we were lined up again in single file and tattooed on the forearm. My number was 161253. November 20, 1933 As it got closer to the morning, I was feeling more desperate to get out of this nightmare. This place is such a terrible sight to behold. Men are thin and frail, most have been beaten, food is scarce, and it is cold. November 21, 1933 Then we were separated into different groups and walked to what they called the B camp of Auschwitz. The women's camp was separated from the men's camp by a wide road. There were about 24 barracks for men and the same number for women. The men in charge were called barracks' elders or capos. They were German criminals taken from German prisons and sent to oversee the people in the barracks. The bunks we slept in were in three tiers, lower, middle, and upper. The mattress was just burlap filled with straw. We had not eaten at that time, and we were ...
