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Feastday: October 14 Imagine that your biography was written by an enemy of yours. And that its information was all anyone would have not only for the rest of your life but for centuries to come. You would never be able to refute it -- and even if you couldno one would believe yo

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Life has never been this hard. Sitting in a cattle car, don't know where you're going. You

have ideas, you've heard stories, but you don't really know. No food, no water, shivering.

Everyone is quiet, some are sleeping, some are crying. It's been a long ride, and I am

weak, but I can feel the train slow down. Some men start waking others up, one is not

waking. He was wounded earlier in the battle for our capital. Most of us knew this young

boy would not survive, but we were hoping. We hear noises outside, other cars being

opened. My heart is pounding. The noises get closer, until finally they come to us. The

cold air swoops in as the Nazi Soldiers yell at us to step out, to hurry. I shiver, not at the

weather, but of my fear. We start marching from the train station to Gross-Rosen. A

concentration camp near Wroclaw, Poland. Prisoners are running around in Gross-Rosen,

half-crazed and barefoot in the snow. It is the scariest site, something no one should see,

or go through. We stand in lines as officers go through and get our names. The names I

hear are not all true. "Your name?!" he says to me.

"Stanislaw Halinski." I say proudly. Although that is not true either. Now there

is nothing else to do except to wait. We stand there, quiet, cold, hungry, thirsty. They

call to us and take us in groups to the showers. The water is ice cold and the shower lasts

no more than a minute. I don't get...