The Bleeding Sky by Louis Brandsdorfer

Author:Louis Brandsdorfer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Warsaw Ghetto, Jewish, Poland, Auschwitz, Holocaust, World War 2
Published: 2009-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

In Majdanek I also found a good friend of mine from Warsaw. We both lived at Muranowska 38 and worked together in the Werterfassung. Her name was Rutta Bucksner. I will never forget her. She was young and pretty with dark hair. Her husband was just grabbed on a street in the ghetto and taken out. Rutta never knew where he was taken or what happened to him.

Rutta had a six-year old daughter that lived with her in Warsaw. A neighbor watched her daughter while we were at work.

She was always very afraid. She was envious of me that I didn’t have my child with me anymore. Once, in Warsaw, I said to her, “Rutta, I’m sure you and your daughter will survive the war.”

She looked at me and said, “I don’t feel that we will. I feel that I will die with my child.”

“Rutta don’t talk like that,” I said.

She and her daughter came to Lublin at the same time that I did. We didn’t see each other there. In Lublin the Germans asked people about any skills they had. They were looking for people who knew how to make brushes. In Warsaw one of the big factories made brushes. Rutta said that she knew how and she was sent away to work. Her daughter was separated from her and sent to Majdanek. A few days after we got to Majdanek a friend saw Rutta’s daughter at the barracks where the children were.

Two weeks later Rutta also came to Majdanek. She told us that the Germans tested the people to see if they really knew how to make brushes, and she had failed. So they sent her to Majdanek.

She could have gone and lived with her daughter. Instead she chose to live in the barracks in which I was living. Every morning she would go and see her daughter. She would help her get dressed and washed. Then she would go to work with the women of our barracks. When she could she would bring her daughter some extra food. Rutta would visit her every day, but she was afraid to live with her.

A few weeks later, early in the morning, Rutta went to see her child. Suddenly the SS surrounded the barracks where the mothers and children were living. Rutta was caught in the barracks with her daughter. The SS took them all away to the gas chambers. The thing that Rutta felt would happen, happened.

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