Event · Deportation
Deportation to Treblinka
The narrator’s mother was deported to Treblinka and killed.
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... Hours later, we were still standing in the same place,
waiting to see what fate held for us. Trucks passed by
almost non-stop, their cargo areas filled with bodies of
dead Jews. Other Jewish prisoners walked alongside these
trucks, heads down, some trembling — making the con-
stant effort to keep up with the trucks. I moved closer to
where this was happening, and suddenly I recognized my
father walking alongside one of the trucks, two steps
behind the already dead. For just a moment, fighting
broke out between the Jews and the Nazis; many Jews
were killed in the shooting. But during the fighting and
confusion my father rejoined me and my brothers. We
were together again. My mother was already on her way
to Treblinka, along with many others, where she was put
to death. ...Connected nodes