Sala Świadectw

Maria Juralewicz

We have to say that we were in cattle cars on the train – there were wooden bunks on two sides, you could fit 8 people on the top and 8 on the bottom, and in the centre there was a stove, with a stovepipe that went out the roof, and we burned coal or wood in that stove, and that’s were we could cook. As for physiological needs, well everyone is already aware that there was a hole cut in the floor, and someone would hang a blanket around it for privacy. And that is how we travelled a very long time, I believe it was about 3 weeks. But as a child, I don’t know if I remember it correctly. It may have been three weeks, or maybe it was 4 weeks. But that is what I remember. And I also remember that we got to the place where the rail line was coming to an end. And we had to go through the snow – they brought some sleighs there for us, and they brought us to these houses, built of logs. They assigned us to a room, but as there were 5 of us, they considered that this was too few, so they added a single man to our room, because there had to be 6 people to a room

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