93-year-old Auschwitz survivor Bogdan Bartnikowski recalls his shock at arriving at the camp as a 13-year-old and being overwhelmed by the stench of death. He told CGTN’s Aljoša Milenković how he coped with his internment.
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00:00It was the middle of the night,
00:02but I noticed a lot of barbed wire being pushed out of the wagons.
00:13The roofs of the barracks were covered with barbed wire.
00:19There was a mess of SS men and dogs.
00:22It was so loud that we had to get out of the car.
00:24The men were sent to the women's camp and the children were sent to the men's camp.
00:37I was shocked by the view of the place.
00:40I realized that I was in a very dangerous concentration camp.
00:46I tried not to lose contact with my mother,
00:49because I was with her all the time.
00:52But in the middle of the night I saw two huge chimneys
01:02with a few meters of flame.
01:04And the air was filled with smoke,
01:09which made it hard to breathe.