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This story will tell you about the time my sister Daniela and I were captured and nearly taken away forever.

I was only 16 years old and she was nearly 15 years old. Our college was destroyed and we were not able to study. My friend Maria and her family survived the uprising and lived a few stations from Warsaw. Maria sent a letter to us and invited us to her new home.

After Hitler鈥檚 dreadful act of ruining our City, we were worried about our 22 colleagues, and we wondered if they had survived. Her message cheered us up. The next day we met her and spent a few happy hours with her. But that day the Germans had decided to capture some polish people. Two armed soldiers stop as. We showed them our school identity cards with the Warsaw address, so they could see we were from Warsaw. For them this meant we were 鈥渂andits鈥�. We explained them that we were schoolgirls in Warsaw. We pleaded with our captors to let us go, that we were innocent girls and we were not in The Home Army because we are too young, but to no avail. They would not let us go.

Soon we were in a goods train with many other people on our way to a transit camp. We broke into bitter weeping.

The camp was in a wood full of barracks, about 50 kilometres from Warsaw. The camp was surrounded by a double fence of barbed wire. We entered through the large gate over which was the red swastika flag. At the gate stood four armed German soldiers. Everyone was tired, hungry and thirsty but we stood silent and waited. They divided us in two groups: women and men. Every German soldiers were incapable of speaking quietly, soon the word 鈥渕arch鈥� was roared out and we moved forward.

The life in the camp began. All women must wore a number on they chest. A woman became a number..

Germans ordered us to marched to a cold, big room and to strip naked. Then we went to the room full of showers. After we had our shower, we had walk passed the male German鈥檚 soldiers. It took away our dignity. My sister and I were crying and we bent our heads in. Later they gave us a slice of brown bread covered with margarine and cup of black coffee. We slept on the concrete floor covered with dried grass, without any heating. The temperature fell during the night to minus 20 degrees Celsius. It was our first day in this distressing, ghastly camp.

In my opinion, the mass deportation of the Poles was carried out with the brutality by the sadistic Nazis of the Third Reich. Why the whole world allowed The Germans to killed and suffered so many innocent and defenceless the Poles.

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