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the North and Danzig.
It
sounded like a song. Her voice was full and
rich.
It
carried like a dream throughout the train station, sensuous,
beautiful like the fleetingness of the stars and at the same time it was
hard like the earth, the changing of the seasons of the year, the nights
and days. Then the announcer called out the stop of the train
to
Hamburg–
Altona with layovers in Dresden, Leipzig, or Oberhausen, Bremen, Frank–
furt, and Wuppertal. The secret of a young womanly voice flavored the
words.
It
spoke of a world that other people had been born to, the right
ones, from the right mothers and the right fa thers.
It
carried a different
spontaneity, a different freedom, anticipation, and expectation.
When we reached our fina l destination of Auschwitz-Birkenau they
didn't even sort through the people in the first three wagons where the
convicted women were, where Lea from Leuwarden was. From the
first to the last, the women went from the ramp down the alley
between the Waffen SS with their dogs on leashes-pregnant, sick,
guilty, or innocent-and straight to the furnaces. Most of them didn't
have a clue where they were going or could only have guessed . Some
of them st umbled on the tracks. In twenty minutes they would be poi–
soned and suffoca ted on Cyclon B and shoveled into the ovens .
Nobody buried the dead . By nightfa ll, ash was all that remained of
any of them.
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Fred
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Paul Usicky
Carl Phillips
Paula Vogel
Maria Flook
Sara London
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