Zsuzsa Merenyi's diary with drawings about the deportation

This is also a page from the copybook, which my sister had during the deportation, she drew in it all the way there, and in the camp, too. This is what the baby room looked like. There was a sharp-nosed woman among us, who found out that this Bergen-Belsen camp had a barrack for babies and she signed on as a nurse there. She didn't know anything, she lied, because she knew that there was food. There was heating, too, they heated with an old iron stove, while there was no heating in the barrack. There were some who were taken to work at the weaving mill. But it was forbidden for them to take us, because then we would have gotten weak and wouldn't have been good exchange goods. So we didn't work. Once they gathered us in a huge group and took us on a walk, or rather to collect brushwood. But we made a walk out of this. We didn't collect brushwood but violets. They gathered us into a so-called 'Sonderlager,' so there must have been some truth in the medicine exchange story. Once they took us on a walk somewhere, and then I held my sister's hand and I said that the gassing was going to come. But they didn't take us there, they took us on a walk.

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