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"I had no money, I had no clothes, I had no luggage, I had nothing."
"I was the only child there with a number, so I also felt that there was something wrong with me."
"And we were traveling criss-cross Poland looking for surviving Jews."
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"The minute the gates opened up, we heard screams, barking of dogs."
"'Our courage is not shackled/ Life is marvelously beautiful…'"
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"That was the last birthday gift from my parents."
"I had false ID and wore a cross."
"There I was, an orphan, a survivor of unspeakable pain and atrocities of the war."
"My mother and several other women organized a clandestine school."
"I drank water from puddles. Snow. Anything that I could get a hold of."
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"We were finally in the cattle train."
"She was lighting the candles and saying the prayers, and we found this somehow encouraging."
"It was a cattle car as you know, no windows, had no seats and no toilet."
"One of the first in my car, I saw a message scrawled in blood on the wall."
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"And then we were being marched down the streets where there was the small ghetto."
"Fifteen thousand of our people were massacred in that particular day."
"Empty streets, open windows, flowing curtains blowing with the wind. No people."
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"They must have taken an enormous chance in doing this."
"Those who resisted or tried to hide were shot."
"I would assume the identity of that person."
"And know that most likely you never see your parents again."
"I put him in the suitcase and I told him that 'you may not cry...'"
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Selma Engel: "We went three days and three nights to Sobibor."
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"I was 17. I was free, but what it meant I wasn't sure."
"We took wagonload after wagonload of bodies out to the grave site."
"They couldn't drink anything, so we had to feed them with medicine droppers."
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"We pulled out the bars and we start jumping out."
"We joined up with a group that was going to take us across occupied territory to the Zone Libre."
"So he hid us for several days there, brought us a little food."
"So I would go there and pick up, let's say, a little three-year-old."
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"Sweeping the field inch by inch with their dogs, the Germans finally captured the pair."
"With bloody fingernails we dug a dank cellar 'grave.'"
"At that time, a gun and a million dollars, the gun was worth more than a million dollars."
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"And we knew the only way we can survive if we will stay in the front."
"And it was by the greatest miracle that I survived."
"She would protect me, she would cover me when we were marching, rain, snow, cold."
"'David, you must survive and let the world know what happened.'"
"But as I was already 14 years old, I needed a job on my own in order to be spared."