The Importance of Survival in Auschwitz

As the battlefront came nearer, mass transports had taken nearly all the prisoners to other camps. The typhus patients were too weak to go outside even with help. A friend broke into a hut and returned shortly with a rucksack which he hid under his coat. He saw another one inside which I was to take so we changed places and I went in. As I searched in the rubbish, finding the rucksack and even a toothbrush, I suddenly saw, among all the things that had been left behind, the body of a woman. After my round I returned to him. Again a hopeless look greeted me and somehow I felt it to be an accusation. Suddenly I decided to