It was the beginning of the end of survival--
of becoming a different-- a different existence,
totally different human being.
Another world.
That world was just fast and faster disappearing.
I was constantly kept inside. I was not to go out.
So I was, like, inside forever.
And we started living inside. Any playing we did as children, we did inside.
There was no outside anymore.
And the stories then were changing, you know,
from Hitler invading to what we gonna do and how we should've done it.
Now it's here, and now how--
Now what do we do, and what's gonna happen tomorrow? It was no longer next week...
or what should we have done a year ago.
Now we're confronted with the devil himself,
and--
no matter how I imagine how badly anyone perceived...
what was going to happen, it turned out infinitely greater...
so that we were instantly cut off from everything.
And the instant brutality,
the instant orders, the instant change,
was not a slower way of introducing you...
into that kind of an existence.
It was like the door shutting on you, and that's it.