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'Suddenly our doors opened. Some odd looking characters, dressed in striped shirts and black trousers leapt into the wagon ... They began to strike out to right and left, shouting: 'Everybody get out! Everybody out of the wagon! Quickly!" We jumped out ... In front of us flames. In the air that of burning flesh. It must have been about midnight. We had arrived at Birkenau, reception centre for Auschwitz.'