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The first trains carrying Jews arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau in March 1942. Several trains arrived daily carrying Jews from almost every country in Europe.

On May 1944 Jewish people from Ghetto Mukachevo in Czechoslovakia were squeezed into a train that brought them to Auschwitz- Birkenau.

My mother Paula (Pessi) was on that train with her Father Arie, her mother Leah, her brothers Eli (19) and Moshe (16), her sisters Eti (12) and Tzipi (6) the Gelb family on their last  “trip” together

My mother told me: “They put everybody inside carts of a very long train; it was so crowded, many people together; that whole long trip you couldn’t move, if you were standing, you stayed standing all the way, if you were sitting it was impossible for you to stand up; we didn’t have anything to eat or drink on the train during that ride of maybe two days.  It was very hot inside and the most awful for me was to see the young children suffering. It broke my heart. Nobody thought they are going to die, they told us we are going to work; but even if someone would have told us we are going to be killed, we wouldn’t have believed it.”