I - And this contrast?

PL - And this contrast, like all contrasts, is on one hand gratifying, on the other alarming, because things can come back. Of course the opposite would have been a lot worse, that is to say to have come first in a luxurious hotel and then later as wretches.

photo: Margaret Bourke-White

I - Did you know where you were going, what your destination was?

PL - We didn't know anything. We had seen on the cars at the Fossoli station the writing "Auschwitz" but in those times, I don't think even the most informed people knew where Auschwitz was, what...