The winter wind
Blew in rumors.
The Red Army
Was closing in.
Kommandos
Left after morning
Appell.
More left
During the day.
Rows and rows
Marching
Out the gates
Surrounded by
Guards,
Guns,
And dogs.
Where are they going?
Guta asked.
I don’t know,
Zlatka answered.
Will we go too?
Giza asked.
I don’t know,
Zlatka answered.
Of the camp.
Only the Muselmanns,
Too weak to move,
Remained.
What will happen
To those left behind?
Bronia asked.
No one answered,
We all knew.
We,
The Union Kommando—
Eleven hundred women—
Were among the last
To march
Out of Auschwitz.
After the day shift
Dismantled
All the machinery.