helga said to me, i'll hide you.elga said to me -- the truck came, and the truck was going to take us someplace. she said, you better get under the truck so they do not see you. i said, i am in no hurry. whatever. it was the feeling that it is probably going to happen now they are going to kill us. it was a balmy night. i said, i'm going to start thinking about what it would be like to be at home on a night like this with my parents. the truck came and some of the other girls went on it. i didn't. we waited and waited. the truck did not come back. unfortunately, i heard that truck, there was one of the ss women who was pregnant. they were shooting and she was hurt. the ss woman then turned and killed 14 girls on that truck. and we stayed there. they came back for us and took us to a baruch or -- barrack or hall or something like that, and they locked us up there. we heard a lot of commotion. there was shooting and planes overhead and everything. and in the story -- then the story, they had attached a time bomb. a reu

a dear friend of mine, her name is helga, she came by and brought two potatoes. i don't know where she found it. i remember i devoured it mine, i was so hungry. ilse said, i'm not hungry. i could not believe it. she said to me, you eat it. i said, maybe she will feel better later. i kept it. i said i will hold it for you. she said she was thirsty and i went to try to get water for her. the ss men came and kicked her and she said, why? i tried to catch some water in my hand for her. she said something incredible. she said, i'm not angry at anyone. i hope no one is angry at me. and then she said to me, you are going to survive. she said, if my parents survive, don't tell them how i died. then she said something else. she said, you have to promise me that you are going to go on for one more week. a week was a very long time. she said, promise. i said, i will try. when daylight broke, there were blossoms on the trees. i had gone earlier and got a blossom for her to smell. the blossoms were all dead probably from her fever. when the sun got up -- it was awful for her.