On the first night of our trip, when it got dark outside, some of the younger men in the car thought about trying to break the window and jump off. Most of the others objected because they were afraid that an escape attempt would make things worse for us. In any case, the chances of surviving that high a fall from the window of a moving train were extremely small. By a majority vote the idea was rejected. We preferred to believe the rumor that better conditions awaited us and that they were not going to separate the families.
