“How the hell would I know, I’m no Jew.” I told her. “Below us there were “starvation cells”, prisoners were locked in and were given neither food nor water until they were dead.” The fool continued, “Can you imagine anything so cruel and inhuman?”
I could, and indeed had often wished to incarcerate my teachers in such facilities. Xxnx I looked around, so many dark hairs, the big noses, girls and boys, I felt suddenly out of place with my blonde hair and blue eyes . At the Auschwitz complex 405,000 prisoners were recorded as slaves between 1940 and 1945.Of these about 340,000 perished through executions, beatings, starvation, and sickness.”
We had the chance to ask questions, “Why did they kill the Jews.?” someone asked but was fobbed off. The journey passed slowly, I saw Carla’s face in every passing tree or telephone pole. Carla stood by me,
