We had been all arrested in the summer time. therefore we were wearing summer dresses. and here the frost was about 2530 degrees (centigrade) below zero and the snow was covering the earth up to our knees. The convoy ordered: "Sit down in the snow!" We began to cry. the children were crying (many of them had fallen ill in the way) but we had to obey. Then they walked us to the local deportation prison and brought us. cold enough. into an unheated bathroom where they made us wash ourselves with icecold water: without such a "bath" we would not be allowed into the cells ... Then we were taken into the cell. filthy. damp. with black walls. We asked for food but the answer was that we were not yet put on the list for that day.
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