First, he wanted to eliminate evidence of German crimes and witnesses who could testify to those crimes. Sitting in her neatly kept apartment in Warsaw, the 96-year-old survivor remembered the biting cold on the night the guards gathered thousands of women outside the gates of Birkenau, a death camp that was part of the Auschwitz complex. “We didn’t know what it meant that we would leave the camp,” she said. “We didn’t know if we would have to undergo some sort of selection. We knew nothing and worried.”But how could it be worse then the hell she had endured for three years?

Source: New York Times January 27, 2020 07:52 UTC