The Last Day of Aushwitz

When we arrived, the first important news that we heard from older prisoners was that this comparatively small camp had no oven, no crematorium, no gas. This joyful surprise put us all in a good mood. We laughed and cracked jokes in spite of and during all we had to go through. And yet we were all very pleased there was no chimney in this camp. An auschwirtz was a long way off. Another time, we saw a group of convicts pass our work site. How obvious the relativity of all suffering appeared to us. Then we envied those prisoners their relatively well regulated, secure and happy life. They surely had regular opportunities to take baths,