Aushwitz Diary Essay Research Paper July 29 — страница 3

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wood, naked, without dignity. Nobody to close their eyes. . All hours day or night a cart came, people were simply grabbed by the hand and foot and tossed on there. I wonder how long it will be before I’m there. January 3, 1934 I was too sick to eat my soup, but I knew I must keep it. I hid that soup behind my bunk. When there was an inspection, the guards found the soup I was hiding, we weren’t supposed to have any food in the barracks. They took me outside and beat me. I passed out after three blows. Phil helped me up, he helped me to my bunk and helped me on my feet before the officials came into the barracks the next day for inspection, Anybody who couldn’t move from his bed was taken away. January 17,1934 During the day German guards on trucks ran back and forth

telling prisoners to jump on. I was carrying steel beams. This is such a cold winter I am so very cold. Fifteen or twenty men were lift each side of the beam because it was a wide beam. Eventually they told us to place it on top of another beam but when we tried we couldn’t tear away our hands from the steel because they were frozen to the beam. The skin came off and started bleeding. They didn’t permit us to put any kind of cloth over our hands. We had to carry it bare. I can’t bare this life anymore, death will be welcomed. January 18, 1934 We had to work 9 or 10 hours a day. I am now unloading gravel and coal from trains. If you didn’t finish your assigned task, you got a beating. We were clothed in an undershirt and a thin, striped coat. We worked outside when it was

often 20 degrees, People just froze to death. The hunger was also terrible. . We are constantly hungry, I am so tired. January 30, 1934 I met a friend of mine from my hometown. He gave me the name of a man who had been in Auschwitz for a long time and was a good friend of my family. At Auschwitz, he supervised other inmates. I went to see him and asked if he could give my brother and me different jobs. Lucky for me, he gave us work making metal cabinets. Our job was to carry things. We were not cabinet makers, but we did the lifting and it was indoors. February 10,1934 We had what they called a selection. They came into the barracks and picked out the people who looked very skinny and couldn’t work anymore. They looked you over, and if you were too weak they put down your

number. The next morning they came for the men, they said they were to be taken to the showers to get cleaned up. February 15, 1934 When the Russians came close to Auschwitz, the Germans took us from the camp and marched us west away from the approaching army. February 16,1934 We marched a whole night to the Polish city of Gleiwitz, about 70 miles away. My brother kept saying to me, “Let’s escape.” I kept telling him that this was not the time because I knew we were still in German territory. I said, “Where are you going to hide? The people, they are not friendly.” But he wouldn’t listen. Suddenly I didn’t see him anymore. Since then I lost him. They put us on a cattle train in Gleiwitz February 26,1934 The train took us to Germany. it took 10 days. They packed us

about 150 people to a car with no food. Fortunately for us the cars were cracked open. Some people had kept their cups.. I had found string in the car, night while the German guards were not watching I attached the string to a cup and scooped up snow. That kept wa our only clean water source. Finally we got to Nordhausen, a large German concentration camp March 5, 1934 . We were there about 10 days, and then they sent us to a camp called Dora in the mountains. The Germans were making V2 missiles there. We did hard labor, digging tunnels into, the mountains. March 14, 1934 At Dora we were hardly fed, most of the people I came with are dead. I look at my body and can’t believe this very skinny man is me. I am feeling sick again, all I can think about is Phil, Poppa and Momma I

want to know if they are alright I hope Phil got away. All I can do is pray that God will help us soon. A campaign speech from July 1932: “Our opponents accuse us National Socialists, and me in particular, of being intolerant and quarrelsome. They say that we don’t want to work with other parties. They say the National Socialists are not German at all, because they refuse to work with other political parties. So is it typically German to have thirty parties? I have to admit one thing – these gentleman are quite right. We are intolerant. I have given myself one goal – to sweep these thirty political parties out of Germany. They mistake us for one of them. We have one aim, and we will follow it fanatically and ruthlessly to the grave.” 323