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‘We lived on a bunk built for four however in moments of overcrowding, it slept seven and sometimes even eight. There was so small space within the berth that when among us wanted to ease his hip, most of us had to turn inside a tangle of hip and legs and chests and hollow bellies as though we were one many-limbed creature, a Hindu god or a centipede. We grow intimate not merely in body but also in mind because we knew that though we were not born of 1 womb, we’d certainly die together.’ about The Children’s Stop: Predicated on a true story by an Auschwitz survivor

Alex Ehren is a poet, a prisoner and a instructor in stop 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the children’s block. He spends his days seeking to survive while illegally providing lessons to his young charges while shielding them as greatest he can in the impossible horrors from the camp. But trying to teach the kids is not the just illicit activity that Alex is certainly involved with. Alex is keeping a journal…

Originally published mainly because THE PAINTED WALL, Otto Kraus’s autobiographical novel, tells the real story of 500 Jewish children who lived in the Czech Family Camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau between September 1943 and June 1944.