European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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There were parts of bodies, some of them prepared to be taken to the chamber.
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People were put in a row, gunshot in the back of the neck", the bodies were brown.
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They did not look horrible, they were brown,
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the smell was disgusting, it was such a hot day, August, in the middle of August in 1944.
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We always had a scarf on our head to cover our hair and protect it from the smell,
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the smell which was in Majdanek. After coming back from Majdanek we put our clothes onto the balcony.
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We lived in barracks, men together with women.
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Then we saw loads of shoes taken from the people who were going to die.
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Little children’s shoes, male and female shoes, some clothes, and we had to write down everything.
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Then we finished going to Majdanek and two or three times went to some forest,
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I do not remember the name of it,
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but we went to a forest where people were murdered.
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They were thrown down into a big ditch and were buried in the way they had fallen down.
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When one of those ditches were dug up,
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we saw a mother holding her child,
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or a couple.
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All documents were taken from their clothes and we were trying to check who was who.
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Liberation
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Right after the Soviet army came, Helena went to Vilnius straight away
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and as a doctor she was mobilized. But at the beginning in Vilnius there were still Germans.
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