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So, finally, after about three weeks, I think we lost the count of time, uh, over there, they told us, they uh someone came, probably a Blockaeltester [barracks leader], you know, or some German, I don't remember exactly, and started to call our names. Well, that was already good because we knew we are the 300 womans, uh, women, and she called us by name. We didn't know what she wants us for, but they led us to a side, um, a train station like on [a] siding, and they put us in the trains again, packed like sardines. Of course, no toilets -- there was a, a pail in the middle. No food. We didn't get any food. I don't know if some of us had a little piece of bread from, uh, from Birkenau, we had. And after a while, the train started to go. We were only guessing, we didn't know where we're going because first of all there are no windows in the, uh, in the cattle cars. We stopped, I think on the way. The German soldiers let us go out for a while, you know, to... And we had some snow that we took from the ground and kind of uh in... instead of a drink. And finally we arrived in some very desolate station, and it said BRUENNLITZ. It said BRUENNLITZ, so of course we were terribly excited that finally we arrived at our destination, but in the background, we saw some very tall chimneys. And as we marched to [Oskar] Schindler's camp, what we assumed will be Schindler's camp, we marched by fives, and I was walking among other friends with a girl who came originally from Germany but she was deported from Germany to Poland and in Poland to camp in Plaszow, and with us to Birkenau, and to Schindler's camp. Her name was Margot, and she said to me, "Oh my God, now we're going to die. Do you see these chimneys?" And I said -- (crying; I always get upset) -- and I said to her, "Margot, you know, we cannot die because if we would be destined to die, we would die in Birkenau."
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