I can tell you of the Yom Kippur day...
in Auschwitz and Birkenau.
And then you will realize how we had to help each other.
That day, my cousin Chaya and I were working...
near the crematorium,
and we had to dig in the ashes...
of our kadoshim.
My cousin and I decided that we're going to fast.
It was a simple decision.
We're not going to drink that coffee-- so-called coffee-- in the morning.
And the lunch that we get-- that soup--
We're going to carry it back into the camp.
By this time, each one of us...
had already a cup for the food,
which we carried on a string tied around our waists.
And we also had a spoon.
We were already civilized people.
And--
So that was our decision. The S.S. found out that we were fasting,
so they decided to give us a present.
"Get up.
"Run.
Lay down."
Push-ups. And the dogs after us.
And if somebody falls, the dogs bite them.
And, uh,
this went on I don't know how long.
And then we are told, "Go sit down and eat."
So we go sit down. Most of the girls start eating.
I'm sitting there with my cousins...
and said, "I'm not eating."
And she says, "Okay. I won't eat either."
The other girls say, "What's happening to you? Why aren't you eating?"
My cousin says, "She's much younger than I am.
She doesn't wanna eat; I can't eat either."
So they asked me, "What's with you?"
I says, "Well, today is Yom Kippur, and I'm fasting."
And they said, "Don't you see that G-d doesn't want us to fast?
"If he had wanted us to fast,
he would have given us much better conditions."
And I say, "Well, maybe he wants to see...
"that dafka-- that in spite of this, we are still going to fast.
So we're fasting."
And in the evening, when we took that soup back to the camp,
it was sour.
It was spoiled because...
it was a very, very hot day...
in Auschwitz that day...
of Yom Kippur, 1944.