Four days in camp already, the Germans have noticed that four women had the same number. So what they did, they took us again and they crossed out the number and they put a new one. That’s why I have two numbers. You see, in Auschwitz we didn’t have names anymore. We only had numbers. Coming back from work we were also checked. In case something didn’t please the Germans we were taken out of line and we knew the other line, what it was, where we would have been taken.

Also every month we had to stay in line and take all our clothes off to check if we had lice. And this was done always when it was cold. And just for the sadistic pleasure, or whatever the purpose was, we had to stay at least twelve hours to check if we had lice or not and our heads were shaved again. And the food was less and less. Also, once we were standing in line Mengele passed and picked a few of us. And among the few of us I was included, and I was to go for the medical experimentation. Those medical experimentation was done in different rooms for each person. We were tied to a bed and we didn’t know what was taken to us or what was done to us. Of course you couldn’t scream and you couldn’t cry. All those horrible things done to us has been done by physicians, specialized nurses and this is what it was done. And apparently they felt this would be experimenting how different the Jewish people are to all the other people. And they also did a lot of experimentation, which I’m sure you’re going to learn in the future, for twins.

The only thing I think which had kept me alive is just in the hope that I would see my child again. In the six of us, since we didn’t have family, we became family. And I think this is what helps us here young people know, that the courage of one another – how much that could help one another.