I met Margot on August 8,1944. Her family were assigned the job of battery destruction because they were arrested. I was the only one left from my family, they were all shipped out to death camps. Everyday we are lead back and forth to the call up lines where we stand outside no matter the weather conditions, to our dismantling plant, then back to our cramped barracks. Every day was the exact same.
September 3 was just another day before Margot and her family and I were selected to go to Auschwitz. When the train slowed down to a stop, the doors slammed open, “Men to the right, women and children to the left!” shouted a SS officer. After a couple minutes of shuffling around the train car, the guards started to walk in single file down the aisle. “Everyone here is going to go through the gates, ask no …show more content…
“Grab your items, follow me, and do not speak a word!” He yelled.
We walked for a while through fallen leaves. Every time there was a pile of them, she would step on them just to hear that satisfying crunch. Upon reaching the gates, the SS guard whispered something to another man. Hearing this, the other man opened the gate and let us through. Margot looked back at me, I could see the fear in her eyes as we walked into the camp. “Those poor people, what’s wrong with them?” she whispered in my ear as we walked by some anorexic families standing at the fence.
Our group of women and children were led to a room with one man in the middle, and two groups of people on the left, and right side of the large room. One by one we were brought to this man that would briefly look at us, then point left, or right. Margot and I noticed that elderly,pregnant women,and the smaller children were always being sent left, while the teenagers or early adults were being sent right.
“I’ll go first.” I tell Margot and Anne.
“What? Are you crazy!” Margot angrily whispers at me.
“We’re going to have to go anyway.” Anne
September 3 was just another day before Margot and her family and I were selected to go to Auschwitz. When the train slowed down to a stop, the doors slammed open, “Men to the right, women and children to the left!” shouted a SS officer. After a couple minutes of shuffling around the train car, the guards started to walk in single file down the aisle. “Everyone here is going to go through the gates, ask no …show more content…
“Grab your items, follow me, and do not speak a word!” He yelled.
We walked for a while through fallen leaves. Every time there was a pile of them, she would step on them just to hear that satisfying crunch. Upon reaching the gates, the SS guard whispered something to another man. Hearing this, the other man opened the gate and let us through. Margot looked back at me, I could see the fear in her eyes as we walked into the camp. “Those poor people, what’s wrong with them?” she whispered in my ear as we walked by some anorexic families standing at the fence.
Our group of women and children were led to a room with one man in the middle, and two groups of people on the left, and right side of the large room. One by one we were brought to this man that would briefly look at us, then point left, or right. Margot and I noticed that elderly,pregnant women,and the smaller children were always being sent left, while the teenagers or early adults were being sent right.
“I’ll go first.” I tell Margot and Anne.
“What? Are you crazy!” Margot angrily whispers at me.
“We’re going to have to go anyway.” Anne