In March 1942, another resettlement order came, and our police
delivered 1,500 persons. But this
time, we received a horrifying report from a dental technician--his name
was Bachner--that
the entire transport had been gassed upon arrival at
Belzec.
Bachner
escaped by
hiding at the bottom of a
latrine
for several days. His main complaint about those days was not the smell
but the flies swarming around his head. With the help of a Polish
gentile farmer, Bachner returned to Kraków and shared with us the news of
our impending doom. The time came to run but we were not quite ready yet.
We still had to wait for our "Aryan" papers.