In the Interest of Justice: Great Opening & Closing Statements Throu by Seidemann Joel

Author:Seidemann, Joel [Seidemann, Joel]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Published: 2004-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

The Germans are transporting the surviving Jews into “The Pot.” At the junction of Mila and Genscha streets, a wooden gate blocks off the whole width of the pavement. Through this gate of life and death, the crowd passes slowly in single file. Each person has to submit to a thorough search. There is a line of young, alert SS men on guard, the revolvers hanging from their uniforms. “Quicker, quicker!” they yell, accompanying their threats with lashes of the whip.

The crowd marches on in endless line, through the gate of life and death. Pale and confused figures pass by, their eyes red with fear. Men help their wives, mothers clasp their little ones. Daughters carefully guide their old mothers. Families try to keep together and cling solidly to each other. Each person holds firmly in his hands the “work card,” which gives him the right to live. They hold on to this document desperately, for it is the only guarantee of their right to live and — even more important — the right of their dear ones to live.

Today is the great day. The weather is pleasant. The sun is shining brightly. Untersturmführer Handke wipes the sweat from his fat, red face. Then he wipes his neck and gets ready again for action. He lashes out again with the whip and strikes the terrified victims on their heads and faces and any other parts of the body he can reach. An energetic and aggressive officer is showing the confused people which way to go. Left — toward Stavki — is the gate of death, leading to the train that will carry them off to Malkinia and Treblinka. This is the place marked out for the women, the old, and the crippled. A gesture of the hand to the right — this is the way to life. To the right go those from whose toil and sweat some profit can still be wrung.

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