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Block Ten's Five Camp Commandments
The leader of the whole block, a Jewish bastard named Simon Fisher from the Hungarian city of Szeged, received his orders from the Nazi SS bastard Kremer. In turn, Fisher passed on the Nazi instructions to every barrack leader. Ours was a nice fellow by the name of Vamosh. Some of his helpers - Nushi, Vera and Mury.
As we all settled down in our abode, Mr. Vamosh had a most important, but ill-boding, message for us from the Nazi SS headquarters. He pitilessly put all his wrath into this speech. Full of anger, he shouted his words almost as if he was speaking to a bunch of criminals:
Here in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, death peaks out from every corner, threatening to take possession of us all. Some of these threats:
We must take care of cleanliness; if we become infected with lice, the Germans will burn our barrack with all of us inside. The Germans already did this in the past.
No one is allowed to steal cattle-beets - anyone who does so will be shot to death.
We are forbidden to walk close to the outer barbed-wire fence - any one seen close to it pays with his life. Anyhow, the outer fence is electrified - a light touch of it is deadly.
Some of sooner, some of us later - but in time - each and every one of us will go through the chimney of the crematorium (located at the near end of the camp) in the form of swirling grayish smoke clouds, and will arrive before the heavenly court.
One more warning: to steal bread, between us inmates, is strictly forbidden. The punishment for bread stealing: to walk in the courtyard with a shaming inscription that reads - "I stole bread" written on a wide-carton hanging on top of one's breast. As just punishment this was accepted by all.
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© David Muskal, 2001
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