"We arrived at Auschwitz around three in the afternoon ... The kapos and SS men herded us into the yard with sticks ... We had to walk up to tables where they took down our personal details, asked about our occupations and issued us numbers on what looked like cards ... Then they began teaching us how to line up for roll call ... The kapos began hitting us with their mallets, seemingly oblivious to where their blows fell. We ran around the yard, completely stunned, terrified, with no idea what was happening and what was expected of us."
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Bogumił Antonowicz, one of the first prisoners taken to Auschwitz from Tarnów. In Destruction of the Polish Elite, p. 69.
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