Solomon's Concentration Camp Experience
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Solomon was sent to Umschlagplatz a Treblinka extermination camp. Luckily, the camp had a maximum capacity of 10,000 people a day and had to cut his group off at half. Instead he was sent to Majdanek, another death, concentration camp. Here they would be sent out out work, Solomon had to try not to show that he was hurt, in order to not be killed. One day he was selected in a group of 10 people to receive a beating, he said he was beaten so hard that his blood was running down his back and head. The day before he'd been selected in a group of 750 to be transferred to a new camp. A soldier from that camp saved him from being killed by the beating, as he claimed him. Soon after he was taken to the railroad and transported to Auschwitz. After arriving, the soldiers made a selection and killed some with machine guns and sent others, including Solomon to be tattooed.
Solomon was now known as Number 128232.
From there he was sent to a quarantine camp, then sent to work building railroad tacks, one day he fell down and couldn't get back up, so the Capo started beating him and pulled him aside. He was sure he was to be gassed along with several others, but he was taken to the Auschwitz main camp and a Polish man questioned him about his childhood.
He met a man named Erlich who had came from the same camp as Solomon on the same day. Erlich recommended that Solomon find a way out and ended up sending him out on a work. Once again his trade helped him out. He told the people at Block 6 that he was a furrier, and named a man that was also a furrier, after that the men helped him. They talked the Capo into letting him out of his job at the coal mines (usually people only lived 8-10 days working that job). He stayed with these people until Auschwitz was liquidated and they fed him and kept him out of harms way.
He once was forced out of the camp to where he stayed in a shed with two thousand other men, and was eventually taken to a railroad station, where he was taken to Dachau.
Solomon was now known as Number 128232.
From there he was sent to a quarantine camp, then sent to work building railroad tacks, one day he fell down and couldn't get back up, so the Capo started beating him and pulled him aside. He was sure he was to be gassed along with several others, but he was taken to the Auschwitz main camp and a Polish man questioned him about his childhood.
He met a man named Erlich who had came from the same camp as Solomon on the same day. Erlich recommended that Solomon find a way out and ended up sending him out on a work. Once again his trade helped him out. He told the people at Block 6 that he was a furrier, and named a man that was also a furrier, after that the men helped him. They talked the Capo into letting him out of his job at the coal mines (usually people only lived 8-10 days working that job). He stayed with these people until Auschwitz was liquidated and they fed him and kept him out of harms way.
He once was forced out of the camp to where he stayed in a shed with two thousand other men, and was eventually taken to a railroad station, where he was taken to Dachau.