Event · Deportation
Deportation train journey
The narrator was forced onto a train carrying prisoners toward Treblinka and Majdanek.
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were placed. The Ukrainians wanted to shove me into a
train that contained women and children, but it was
already sealed. At that moment, Sholem saw me, barely
able to recognize me because of the beating I endured.
Slowly he inched toward me. Suddenly, the Nazis began
pushing men into the trains, one hundred to a car. With
lightning speed, Garfinkel pulled me into the compart-
ment where he and the other young men were confined.
Then the door of the car closed. I was one woman
among one hundred men. The trains left, carrying us on
our final journey. ...Connected nodes