from the break of that dawn at the station until our first night’s rest at the camp.
Escorted by SS guards with loaded guns, we were made to run from the station, past electrically charged barbed wire,
through the camp, to the cleansing station; for those of us who had passed the first selection, this was a real bath.
Again our illusion of reprieve found confirmation.
The SS men seemed almost charming. Soon we found out their reason.
They were nice to us as long as they saw watches on our wrists and could persuade us in well-meaning tones to hand them over.
Would we not have to hand over all our possessions anyway, and why should not that relatively nice person have the watch?
Maybe one day he would do one a good turn. We waited in a shed which seemed to be the anteroom to the disinfecting chamber.
SS men appeared and spread out blankets into which we had to throw all our possessions, all our watches and jewelry.
There were still naïve prisoners among us who asked, to the amusement of the more seasoned ones who were there as helpers,
if they could not keep a wedding ring, a medal or a good-luck piece.
No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away.
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