A Light in the Darkness by Albert Marrin

Author:Albert Marrin [Marrin, Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2019-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

At the Umschlagplatz, SS men load Jews onto trains bound for Treblinka. (1942–1943)

Double rows of Jewish policemen stood, shoulder to shoulder, at the end of the funnel, their clubs ready. Beyond, a train waited, steam rising from its smokestack, the doors of its sixty boxcars open. Since the boxcars had no steps, loading crews placed wooden ramps in front of each door. Germans and Ukrainians counted off from eighty to a hundred people per car, then chalked the number on the door. Anyone who hesitated to go up the ramp was shot on the spot. One man went willingly, perhaps gladly. Legend has Rubinstein, “the madman and joker” of the ghetto, laughing as he ran into a boxcar. When each car was filled, SS men rolled the doors shut and locked them from the outside. Inside each car, small air holes covered with barbed wire were the only source of light. At an officer’s signal, the engineer blew the steam whistle three times. The train jolted. It began to move. It gathered speed. Its destination: Treblinka.46

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