My mother's letter written before being sent to the chambers of death

Gardian had given the letter to her husband Kurt, but several decades later, his youngest son, Frank, had not read the handwritten letter.

Here, he tells about “Sky News” how she felt when she read the letter that is now available for visitors to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in the United States:

My father, my mother, and my older brother, I too was sent to Auschwitz in December 1943.

A transport of about 5,000 prisoners arrived at the camp in September before us and we were part of the second group of 5, 000 people.

We have no idea why we're here.

We've stayed in a Czech camp, which was a Nazi trick to show the International Red Cross that the Czech Jews were taking care of us.

At that time, we had no idea why this camp was founded because, for the most part, when the children arrived at the Auschwitz railway station, they were killed almost immediately in the gas chambers.

The International Red Cross has never inspected Auschwitz, so the Nazis killed most of those who came in September.

This happened in March and April 1944, reports “Sky News” Transmission Periscope.

A month later, they decided to make a selection from the second group in which my family and I were there.

We all lined up in front of the famous SS doctor Joseph Mengele, whose nickname was the Angel of Death, who selected who would die and who wouldn't.

My brother John, who was four years older than I was, was engaged and selected for death rooms.

And because I was less than 12, I was assigned to the death row.

We were both standing in the line when one of the prisoners for whom I had worked as a messenger came to me and quickly took me to a group of older children.

He saved my life.

But when my mother heard of John, who was 16, she decided to stay with him.

She couldn't bear to leave him alone in the gas room.

About five days after the selection, she wrote a letter to my father, who had been moved to a medical camp after he was a physicist.

That letter was given to a Guardian, despite Auschwitz's size he decided to give the letter to my father.

There were between 30,000 and 400,000 guards in the camp, and many were not part of the SS.

A few months later, Auschwitz was released, and I joined my father at this time in Austria and Germany.

My father told me that I had a letter from my mother written by her before she was sent to the gas room with my brother.

I was only 12 years old at the time, and every time I tried to read the letter I was out of my mind.

The letter written on June 11, 1944, writes as follows: “You, the only one, dear, in isolation we expect darkness”.

We considered the possibility of hiding, but we decided not to do it since we felt it would be hopeless”.

The famous truck is ready here and we're waiting to leave. I'm completely calm”

You're my only boyfriend, not to blame you for what happened, was our fate”

We've done what we could”.

Stay healthy and remember my words that time heals if not completely then at least partially. ”

Take care of our little golden boy and don't ruin it too much with your love”

The second “stay healthy. I'll think of you and Misan. You have a great life, now we have to get on trucks”

For eternity, Vilma”

I kept the letter in a closet in my house here in Indianapolis for many years, not telling anyone./Periscopi/