It was late at night that we arrived at Auschwitz. When we came in,
the minute the gates opened up, we heard screams, barking of dogs,
blows from...from those Kapos, those officials working for them,
over the head. And then we got out of the train. And everything
went so fast: left, right, right, left. Men separated from women.
Children torn from the arms of mothers. The elderly chased like
cattle. The sick, the disabled were handled like packs of garbage.
They were thrown in a side together with broken suitcases, with
boxes. My mother ran over to me and grabbed me by the shoulders,
and she told me "Leibele, I'm not going to see you no more. Take
care of your brother."