This dehumanization process was consistent and always shocking. After being thrown into cattle trains, numbers were ‘branded’ on our skin, just as they branded cattle. This humiliation and degradation broke many of us, not only physically but also mentally. We all looked the same. We lost every individual distinction: all with shaved heads, wearing bizarre, striped ‘pajamas’ that hung on our bodies in a ridiculous way, wearing identical caps and a blank expression in our eyes.
