or anything. A drainage ditch ran through the B camp. Daily the SS guards sent prisoners to shovel out waste out of this ditch. We were weak and desperate for food, many people were getting sick because of the unsanitary conditions. We were starving, and dreaming of food. People are dying around me. I almost don’t want to get close to anyone anymore, because it hurts so much to watch them waste away or be beaten to death. All I could do is hope and pray, how can God let this happen, I am angry with him. I can only hope that the end of the war is in sight. December 26,19343 I have seen so many people die most of the people who come to the camps are already weakened. The guards have no regard for life here, they are demons working for the Hitler, the devil himself. The smell is unbearable, I can see bodies being tossed in huge holes from the window at the end of the barracks, they are stacked like wood, naked, without dignity. Nobody to close their eyes. . All hours day or night a cart came, people were simply grabbed by the hand and foot and tossed on there. I wonder how long it will be before I’m there. January 3, 1934 I was too sick to eat my soup, but I knew I must keep it. I hid that soup behind my bunk. When there was an inspection, the guards found the soup I was hiding, we weren't supposed to have any food in the barracks. They took me outside and beat me. I passed out after three blows. Phil helped me up, he helped me to my bunk and helped me on my feet before the officials came into the barracks the next day for inspection, Anybody who couldn't move from his bed was taken away. January 17,1934 During the day German guards on trucks ran back and forth telling prisoners to jump on. I was carrying steel beams. This is such a cold winter I am so very cold. Fifteen or twenty men were lift each side of the beam because it was a wide beam. Eventually they told us to place it on top of an...
