On March thirtieth, the day his prophecy had told him that the war and suffering would be over for him,
he became delirious and lost consciousness.
On March thirty-first, he was dead. To all outward appearances, he had died of typhus.
Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man—his courage and hope, or lack of them—
and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect.
The ultimate cause of my friend’s death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.
This suddenly lowered his body’s resistance against the latent typhus infection.
His faith in the future and his will to live had become paralyzed and his body fell victim to illness—
and thus the voice of his dream was right after all.
The observations of this one case and the conclusion drawn from them are in accordance with something
that was drawn to my attention by the chief doctor of our concentration camp.
The death rate in the week between Christmas, 1944, and New Year’s, 1945, increased in camp beyond all previous experience.
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