European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

After coming at night to Majdanek, it was 17th January 1943.

It was winter, when the frost comes to twenty, thirty degrees. Enormous frosts.

They took us to the field, put us in front of a bath house.

First, we were taken in those cattle vans from Warsaw to Lublin,

then were unloaded, we walked from the railway station to the camp.

There, at night, all of us had to strip naked.

Searched, we were standing in the snow.

They searched our clothes.

After the search, we got dressed.

It is good some of them had some warm clothes, as some others, prisoners from Pawiak,

were arrested earlier, in summer, so they had only light clothes on.

Fortunately, I wore good cloth, when I was arrested my mother gave me warm clothes.

And additionally, she sent some to Pawiak. It helped me a bit.

They took us to the field number 3.

I got to block X.

There were two blocks, our transport took block number IX and X.

At night, nobody knew anything, it was empty, cold, we were hungry.

We get up in the morning, opened the door and there, in front of us, were four transports of Czech Jews.

We came on 17th January, and those transports from Czech I guess, came definitely earlier than us.

They were, I can say, close to death.