And that way they gave me my task. Cleaning the office, I was able to do that. I had that for two years, in fact I had the office of the chief of the protective custody camp. That was the man who built the camps. He had a huge map, I had always seen it. But suddenly, there was a much bigger one. And everywhere, every two centimeters, there was a pin with a tiny flag. And he had never come there, for the whole year he hadn’t been there, and suddenly he opened the door. I was so surprised, I didn’t even say Good Morning, because that wasn’t how it was done there. And then I asked him: „Tell me, what do those flags mean?“ Well, he really looked surprised that I was so stupid and didn’t know that these were the new concentration camps. Well, and then he told me. And I said: „Then you have imprisoned more people than are at home, at work.“ He turned on his heel and was out of the door. And eight days later, I wasn’t there any more. I was assigned to another task, that was disinfestation, where the lice were.

I wasn’t mangy, but my feet were black like coal dust. I didn’t get my period any more, it was too cold. Then an older Sister told me: „Why don’t you sit in the hot water.“ We got hot water when cleaning the offices on Sundays. And really, I did get my period. And then my feet got back to normal again. Interviewer: Did it hurt very much? No, it didn’t hurt, but it didn’t look nice. Then I got ulcers of the perspiratory glands, and three times I had ulcers on my foot, they was cut open. In my armpits, I had small ulcers again and again, because you couln’t clean them. You couln’t let it heal either, because it was always opened up again when you undressed. The clothes were completely stiff. Nothing was comfortable, you could never feel comfortable. I wasn’t at a sanatorium, after all, I was in a concentration camp. That was why there wasn’t anything agreeable, nothing at all.

Then we went for a walk – as I already said – with the blind Sister, she was called Uli D. And she had already been imprisoned for six years, and would have liked it to end. She asked me: „What do you think, how long will we have to be here yet?“ And I said: „I think, I feel that I will have to complete two years.“ She was terribly appalled, she threw her hands up horror, and said: „I can’t stand that, I can’t stand that, I won’t be able to stand it!“ Now, when she had moaned for a while I said: „Look, if our God Jehova wants it, we will stand it. And if he doesn’t, then we’ll go to sleep.“ That’s what I said, because death is considered as sleep with us, as you don’t know or hear or see anything. Otherwise, nobody would allow themselves to be put into a coffin, if they could still hear or see something.