Helen Jutkevicz - November 10, 1982
Transport to Auschwitz
How long before someone in the family was taken away or did you all remain as a group?
No, until we went to Birkenau--to Auschwitz to be--and mine father and the brother what they passed away, yeah. And then in Birkenau what we--is was the last time was very, very hard to stay, you know? When they came and they took you away and we was--how is to say--healthy here and ??? and this everything and this was too much. So we say they told us if we go in a camp we can be together but I say, "I'm young, my sister younger, brother is younger and we working, mother would stay home and she would cook for us." And then we went by ourselves and we not know that something is happen.
Then you, your mother...
Yeah.
...two sisters and one brother...
No. I and my sister--other sister--one sister was a married sister...
She...
Yeah, she went in with her husband so, just two sisters, I and another one sister, and my mother and two brothers.
You then left...
Yes, then how is was Birkenau you know, we came we in the trains and we selected.
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