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Joseph Gringlas - January 22, 1993

While you were in Birkenau, did you, were other, do you rememberseeing other trains arrive?

Yeah. I was uh, I don't know, one day I found myself workingwith the-unloading some big stones from a, from a truck, I don't rememberexactly and I saw a train coming in. But a train which come in-came in andI heard it's from Czechoslovakia, that train looked like a passenger train.It didn't look like a train like I went, came in. 'Cause there so, like apassenger train. And they were not cooped like we were. This what I know,this was a long train and they were dressed like, probably they knew theygoing away, taken away, so they got themselves dressed the best what theyhad. Ah. Was children and family, lot of other, a lot of people were on thetrain, but it was mostly mixed, children and sisters and brothers, the wholefamilies. They came from Czechoslovakia there. I saw that. And I knew exactlywhere they going.

Did you watch for awhile? Did you watch the selection takingplace?

Eh, no, we-there was a third away from the train come in, I wasaway when I worked, but I knew the train going by and I saw the people throughthe windows, it was a big. But it's terribl...a funny thing that they wereput on a-like passenger train. And it struck me something, they made themfeel like they're going somewhere, going to work.