Chapter 4 : Camp Auschwitz
"Welcome to Camp Auschwitz….you will be staying here as long as you live." He said masking his emotions. I started at him blankly without any emotion.
"Go with the others" He commanded me " Do what the other soldiers tell you to do, and don't resist". Again I stared back at him. "Now go follow the others". He said.
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I walked where all the other women were, in a straight line. I was instructed to stand with the other women, I heard a soldier demanding us to take off our clothes. All the women did as the soldier said. I stood their quietly, looking straight ahead. "Take off your clothes…Now!" He said. Why? Why would I, for their enjoyment? " If you want to live stop acting like a , and take your clothes off now!" I had no choice but to do so, I felt like all of my sins had been exposed. We were lead to a dark narrow hallway, at the end of it, there were lights flickering on and off. There were individual rooms on both sides of my with a little shower curtain, and a shower head. We were divided my two soldiers on either side of the room. Half of the woman on the left and on the right. When I was next in line, the soldiers were arguing about me. The heavy stock soldier, with side burns, and a moustache thought I should go on the left. The other tall one thought I should go on the right.
"On the right definitely" The tall one said handing me a bar of old soap, and a scrawny towel. As I headed in the shower, all of the showers turned on, behind me I heard ear piercing screams, and I saw mysterious green gas fogging up the whole corridor, women ran half naked to their" living quarters" I finished taking a shower, and couldnt find my way out. A hand clamped on my mouth, and led me outside. My eyes were leaking tears, with the gas.
"Are you okay?" A familiar voice asked me, I t was the soldier…..Seth.
"I think.. It-the green stuff, was it gas?" I asked
"Yes It was" He replied " I need to show you to your job"
We walked out into the open air, to a little shack near the center of the camp.
"You are going to make supper, I found the easiest job for you" Seth said
"Do I have to cook?" I asked politely
"You are in a death camp Iris you have to do it, or you will be whipped" Seth said, his eyes were pleading now "If you want to live listen to me" Seth's eyes turned soft and a beautiful appeared on his face. It was so beautiful it hurt my eyes, he broke my train of thought with words that made me melt.
"You are very lucky, I am taking care of you. I want you to live." He said totally meaning it. I nodded, and kept on walking down the camp with Seth leading me. Seth escorted me to the kitchen and told me to make supper.
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I was stirring the meat, in the stew something was missing it tasted bitter. Maybe some spice will do, oregano hmmmm that's it! I closed my eyes and smelled the spice the strong aroma creeping into my nose. I felt like I could feel, no that was not the right way to describe it , I felt like I could be there where all the spices grew. In my mind I could picture a hill just like the one back home. I sniffled, now is not the best time to cry, I tried opening my eyes but there was some kind of force pushing on my eyelids. I kept on day dreaming there was a house a woman that looked like...mom, and...dad and me in the kitchen all together. My mom was teaching me how to make stew like I was right now. I was about thirteen.
"Mom you know this is my first time, right?" I said
"I know but this is marvelous, make it again when you are all grown up with a family and kids of your own" Mom said she sounded so confident back then before the Nazi's paraded on our perfect life. Tears flooded my eyes I have to let it go, the stinging stopped from holding back all the tears. Each one reminding me of my life back home with my parents. Why? What did I ever do for my fait to turn out like this. I winced with pain and heard a blood piercing scream, I t was coming from me I winced with pain as a whip slashed me in the back. The pain was worse and worse, and the noise grew louder and louder. The slashing stopped until I was knocked out completely. The only thing I remembered seeing was a long and lean structure bending over me. It was Seth.