Only 100 women survived out of 999

In March 1942 a train with 999 young girls of Jewish origin left Slovakia. They were mostly teenagers. Their parents were informed by the Nazis that the girls would be working in a boot factory only a few months. It was a terrible and horrifying lie. This was actually the first time the Jewish people were transported to the Auschwitz death camp in an official manner.

Edith was the name of one of these girls. She went on the train with her sister Lea. As they opened the doors they did not see a factory. They observed an icy desert with barbed wire. The girls had to work very hard such as digging in the swamps with their bare hands or demolishing old brick walls. They never ate enough and never were warm.

Life in the camp was a nightmare. Typhus was a contagious sickness. Poor Lea became really ill and was sent to the gas chambers in late 1942. Edith was heartbroken, but she didn't give up. She was not killed due to her camp sisters. They were friends who took care of one another, gave each other crumbs of bread and slept together to keep warm at night. Edith was even presented with a pair of sturdy shoes by one of her friends, which probably saved her life.

At the time when the war was coming to its end, the survivors were compelled by the Nazis to walk miles during a snowstorm. In the snow quite a number of girls died. Among the 999 women that made the trip, only less than 100 made it to freedom. Edith managed to live on and inform the world of the fact that war is the worst thing that can ever happen to humanity.

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