From the Notebooks and Diary of the Great Deportation

This day has been among the most difficult, the most nightmarish of all days that we are now living through. Firstly the roundup. Yesterday’s roundup brought a rich harvest. I do not know the exact number of those who were seized, but by all accounts their numbers ran into the hundreds. This means that hundreds of Jewish lives are exposed to the gravest danger, the danger of destruction. This morning they were all taken away, in closed trains of course, in freight or cattle trucks. Where they were being sent is not known for sure. I have heard from several