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The lists of those people who were going to be sent to
Auschwitz...we assumed it was Auschwitz, we didn't know 100
percent. But the trains came back from Auschwitz--usually the
conductor or somebody would let on where they came from--to pick
up more people and to send them off to...away and towards the
east. Well, the lists were assembled during the day on Monday and
on Tuesday they were read off in the barracks. A Kapo [prisoner
supervisor of other inmates] came to the barracks and was reading
off the names of those who were sent away. And as you can
imagine, this was some horrible horrible times. People finding
out that this was really probably the end, or they...they...We
didn't know 100 percent what was going on in Auschwitz, we...we
knew it was terrible but we didn't know exactly how terrible it
was. And everybody would help always those who had to leave the
camp. They would help them to assemble their stuff, to console
them, to give them whatever they had...a little food left to give
them on the way.
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