Homeless children in the Warsaw Ghetto around 1941 suffered from starvation. They cried out, gave up, sat down, and fell asleep in agony. Jews gradually died of hunger and dehydration dryness. One after another, black wagons were gathering up the dead bodies on the streets. I had no choice but to pass by the bodies in silence. The emaciated orphans walked in agony, carrying blankets and holding hands.
In September 1942, the Nazi German army announced, "All Jews still in the Warsaw Ghetto must assemble at a designated place. Those who do not assemble will be shot. The SS and Ukrainian militia sorted out the non-assembled Jews, dead or alive, from September 6 to 12. They swept the buildings and shot the hiders in plain sight immediately afterwards.
The Jews taken to extermination concentration camps were countless men, women, children, and old people who were made to walk around expressionless, frightened, nervous, and disappointed. Their families were separated from them, and their faces turned pale with fear as they trembled and begged for mercy from the policemen. Even those who were able to stay behind were not willing to risk their own lives. During that period alone, the Nazi Germans transported some 60,000 Jews to extermination camps, and about 4,000 starved to death or were shot to death.
