Jewish children from Wilno

... At the same time that my dear father was killed, groups of young Jewish children from Wilno were also being put to death. I remember sitting in my barracks, hearing those children pleading, ‘“‘We are too young to die, we still want to live. Please, let us live.” Their pleading fell on deaf ears. The children were gassed and put in the crematoria with my father. I stayed up all that night, watching the smoke rise from the crematoria, where Jew- ish lives were being destroyed. ...