Word came to us that we were going to evacuate Auschwitz. Why
were we evacuating Auschwitz? It is because the Russians were
coming close by. And so we...we all walked out Auschwitz and we
started walking. And we started walking, we walked for days. I'll
never forget it. I don't know how many days we walked. We walked
and then we took cattle cars and then we walked again. And as we
walked we heard gun shots and they told us to keep on marching.
We heard gun shots and they were shooting people in the back who
couldn't keep up with the walking. It ended up being called the
death march because the ravines and the gutters, they were all
red from blood. From people, some people who spoke Polish, we
were walking through Poland, and some people who thought they
could escape would try and escape. Some people who couldn't keep
up with the walking anymore, they got weak, they threw all their
bundles away and they walked until they couldn't keep up anymore,
they fell behind and the Germans just shot them. We saw people
being shot in the front in their chests, in their back. They were
laying all over, on top of hills, behind trees. It was really
like a war zone. And this is how we finally arrived in a camp
called Bergen-Belsen.