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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.

After the first night, one of our colleagues died.

We took him out and waited.

We did not manage to put him down and those Czech Jews jumped on him like vultures

and everybody took clothes or whatever from him.

I will never forget this sight.

Even now I have it in my dreams them jumping onto him, all of them, falling down because of starvation,

they were Muslims, in the camp language.

So with the next dead body, next day there were two or three dead bodies, we undressed them.