The story
Date: 9 March 1945
Departure: Ravensbrück
Arrival: Mauthausen
Number of deportees: 799 women
Context: The transport reached Mauthausen on 9 March 1945. Fast alle prisonerswomen, hatten bereits Lagererfahrung. „Schwein“, sage ich spontan zu ihm. „Was?“, fragt the SS-Mann. Ma Freundin Odile is extrem blass and zittert heftig.
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