Holocust

Ruth Brand maiden name  Rical Scabl, was born in Cohia Romania in 1928. Her parents names were Morahi Scabl Fid Gissa. They lived in Cohia or Hungry. She had a sister and a brother. they spoke 3 different languages. There house was made out of wood with 3 bedrooms and a kitchen. Men ages 18-45 were taking to work, they were said they were going to the army but never had army cloths. Some peasants offered to take young girls and hide them and they refused, the girls wanted to be with their parents. September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, her family heard Germans were killing Jews and they prayed. Germans invaded her family in 1944. she retreated to Budapest. In the Ghetto she was assigned a spot on the floor, it was 4 weeks later she was sent to Auschwitz. The conditions in the Ghetto was work. they worked digging ditches, making roads and ect. They hardly had food and would get some from the peasants. They left the Ghetto to get food from the peasants to tyake food along for the journey to Auschwitz. The men and women marched separately to the train station. They had to throw anything away they could not carry. In the camp they had to be counted every day before work and if they were mis counted they would be punished and re counted. There was to many people in one place she was put in to sleep. "If anyone had to turn around at night, everyone had to turn around. There wasn't enough room."
She survived for being obedient and working. As long as she kept working they wouldn't kill her. She hardly ever ate. "We had vegetable soup, sometimes there was a vegetable but not often." People she met out of the Ghetto didn't recognize her. One girl her mother was friends with lost her little 6 year old girl. Anyone that was not selected that could work was sent to be burned. She believed the women because she was friends with her mother. All the hair was cut, all cloths ripped from them to be in rags, It was after a few transport came back it was then she relized that the horrible smell she was smelling, that they were all smelling, were burning flesh of their families and it was then that they realized they were left alone. She lost most all of her family in the camp.