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AT THE EDGE OF ANOTHER WORLD They moved to wide gauge wagons in Brod. “As soon as the train stopped, we heard someone yelling: ‘Out, quickly!’ When our door opened, we were ordered to move to wagons placed on the next gauge. We started jumping out, while the Ustashas beat us with gunstocks. Then I saw a horrible sight. As if at the edge of another world, next to us and behind us, people were falling like tree trunks. Dead, suffocated, strangled, broken… They were standing next to us, as if sleeping on their feet, swinging cold and extinguished, keeping a bit of living space for themselves. They passed out without a word, without strength to ask for help. We didn’t notice them. And now, when we moved away from one another, their bodies were falling with a dull crash. Some, however, stayed in the wagons, incapable of moving. Ustashas quickly finished them. At least 50 people from our wagon didn’t continue their trip to Jasenovac. They moved us to other wagons – from two Sarajevo wagons into one for Jasenovac. Nobody was speaking anymore, while songs disappeared a long time ago. Silence and agony… and again the same darkness, the same anxiety, again no air. We arrived to Jasenovac on May 8. We thought our suffering finally came to an end. How sorrowful!... We were happy to be in Jasenovac.” And there… “When the wagon door opened, we saw Croatian soldiers, Ustashas. One of them yelled: ‘Welcome! Anyone hungry?’ Nobody said a word, nobody moved… only one boy replied: ‘I am hungry.’ The Ustasha asked him to come out. He came to the wagon door, hardly capable of standing on his feet. I have never forgotten the expressions on their faces. One haughty, with a sneer, and the other tired from suffering and weakness. That’s life too, I thought, but it doesn’t have to look like that. The Ustasha bent over, took a handful of gravel, brought it to his mouth and yelled: ‘Open your mouth!’ His face was distorted: ‘Eat! This will be your meal.’ He filled his mouth with gravel and then waved our head towards us: ‘Out!’ Once again, many motionless bodies remained behind us. I think about two thousand people reached Jasenovac; every third died during the transport. We ran from the station to the camp under blows of the Ustashas. If anyone would stumble and fall, he would be finished off with gunstocks or bullets.” UNDER A DARK SKY However, after all the suffering, the hopes sung in Đurđevdan came true. Germans were waiting for them in front of the reception camp. “It was a surprise only rare concentration camp detainees got to have. The ‘Tot’ organization, labor department of the Third Reich, was waiting for fresh labor material. They were selecting workers for camps in Norway. We were lined up in several rows in front of the main camp entrance. German soldiers come behind our backs and with their heavy military boots hit us below our knees. Those who kneeled or fell couldn’t get up, while those who stayed on their feet had to run to the other side, to the group chosen for labor in German camps. A horrible fate of Jasenovac awaited those who SERBIA • N O <strong>55</strong> • 2016 75
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