The Importance of Being Alone

We tried at all times to avoid attracting the attention of the SS. It is well known that an enforced community life may result in an irresistible urge to get away, at least for a short while. The prison are craved to be. Alone with himself and his thoughts. He yearned for privacy and for solitude. After my transportation to a so-called rest camp, I had the rare fortune to find solitude for about five minutes at a time. Only the steps of passing guards could rouse me from my dreams,. Perhaps it would be a call to the sick bay or to collect a newly arrived supply of medicine for my heart. But the desperately ill-received no medicine. For several