The Meaning of the Finger Game

The significance of the finger game was explained to us in the evening. It was the first selection, the first verdict made on our existence or non-existence. For the great majority of our transport, about 90% it meant death. Their sentence was carried out within the next few hours. Those who were sent to the left were marched from the station straight to the Crematorium. This building had the word bath written over its doors in several European languages. Each prisoner was handed a piece of soap and then but mercifully I do not need to describe the events which followed.