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We arrived in Sobibor. So I was with my brother and myself and my
friend. And we all meet the other rest of the people, about
seven, eight hundred people and they took us out from the trains
and they put us in two lines and uh and they start
collecting...picking out people. I didn't know what the picking
out means, so uh one German asked me, "Where are you from?" I
said, "From Lodz." "Out." And then they went further. "What are
you?" "Uh, a carpenter." "Out." Things like that, so they picked
about eighteen to twenty people. Well, let me maybe say that we
heard in Poland that that happens with the Jews. They kill Jews
and they gas Jews and things like that. But we really, as younger
people, we really didn't believe that something like that is
possible. We thought maybe the younger people will take to
work...maybe only the older people. You just didn't want to
bel...wan...want it to believe, because it was so
incomprehensible, so unbelievable that something like that can
happen that you just...even if you had the intelligence you
didn't believe it. So when they picked us out in the camp, I
really didn't know what the picking out means, whether life or
death, so they took us...the twenty people...they took us in one
side and the others went to the camp, to the gas chambers...what
we found out later. So we worked in there. Went...in the
afternoon, in the afternoon, they took us with all the other
people to separate the clothes. That started to be our work and
uh...I started to separate my clothes...that was the clothes from
the people who just arrived with the transport what we came with.
And while I did that I found the clothes of my brother, his...the
pictures from the family, so I knew already...they already told
me what's going on, so I knew already what happened...that he
went to the gas chamber with my friend and I am here separating
his clothes.
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