Eva Galler

People started to pull out those barbed wires and jumped through those little windows. Even the SS people sat on the rooftop of the train and shot, but everybody took a chance. Whoever could, whoever it was possible to take a chance. Well, my father told us, when the young people started to jump, he said, "You the oldest three"--I was seventeen, and my sister sixteen, my brother fifteen--"You oldest try. Maybe somebody will survive, but we will stay here with the small children, because even if they go out they won't be able to survive." So the parents went with the small children. My sister . . . my brother jumped first, my sister second. Then I jumped, and I landed in a ditch of snow. They shot after us. They shot . . . they keep on shooting, but the bullet didn't hit me. When I didn't hear anymore the train, I got up. And the first thing I did, I took off my star, and I promised myself never again will I ever wear a star. I went first to look after my sister and brother and found them dead. And I found many corpses . . . many corpses. From that train one of my friends survived, too. She lives in New York. We were two people who survived that train, but many people jumped. Well, after that I survived under an assumed name, and I was caught to work in Germany as a Polish girl. And I worked on a farm, on a German farm, under a false name . . .pretended that I was Catholic and escaped until the end of the war. __

Isak Borenstein

When sometimes I try to go back to my past and is unbelievable for me. Anything what could be could happen. Sometimes I am thinking I am just dreaming. Something, something never could happen something, I could have lived through._________

Jeannine Burk

I guess we were all back about three months when we learned that my father had been exterminated in Auschwitz. And, you see, I was never allowed to have a father. I don't have a picture except for one little picture of me and my father. I have no idea of what the five of us looked like together. None. I have no memory of anything before. I don't. I just don't have. And all because he was a Jew. I mean, he never killed anyone, he never robbed anyone, but yet they murdered him. They exterminated him simply because he was a Jew.

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