悲しみ and 勝利, an Auschwitz 生存者's 旅行 支援する to a former hell
By Maayan Lubell
OSWIECIM, Poland, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Jona Laks could smell the 燃やすing flesh as she walked に向かって death at the Auschwitz crematorium. More than 75 years later, 老年の 90, she has returned to what was the most 悪名高い Nazi death （軍の）野営地，陣営 of World War Two's ユダヤ人の 大破壊／大虐殺.
"I can see it now," she says, gazing upon the crematorium where the 死体s of Jews from across Europe who were 殺人d in gas 議会s were later 燃やすd in furnaces.
"I saw 誘発するs from the chimney and I could feel the 燃やすing flesh. As we got closer I could feel something was going to happen. I started crying. I didn't want my sisters to see me cry," Laks said softly. She was to be saved moments later.
The Nazis 殺人d more than one million people at Auschwitz, nearly all of them Jews. Six million Jews were 殺人d in the 大破壊／大虐殺.
Laks was about 14 when she was 輸送（する）d to Auschwitz in 1944 with her twin sister Miriam and older sister Chana from the ユダヤ人の ghetto of Lodz in Nazi-占領するd Poland.
She returned this week as a guest of honour at the international 儀式 on Jan. 27 祝う／追悼するing the 75th 周年記念日 of the （軍の）野営地，陣営's 解放, hosted at the Auschwitz-Birkenau 記念の.
"It's still so （疑いを）晴らす. I can't imagine it was 75 years ago," said Laks, speaking slowly as her 直面する filled with 悲しみ.
"THE LAST SURVIVORS"
Laks made the trip from her home in イスラエル with her granddaughter, 物陰／風下 Aldar, 28.
At every step of the 旅行, her emotions built up. "We must be getting closer," she said looking out of the car window at a grey sky above 明らかにする trees lining the road from Krakow to Oswiecim.
"I'm nervous. I'm trying to adjust myself," she told her granddaughter. "There are those who do not want to talk about it. They want to leave the past behind, it's difficult to relive."
But for Laks, telling her story is important. "We, the last 生存者s that still remain, if we will not speak out an d not tell, it will be forgotten as if nothing happened."
As the 乗り物 近づくd the （軍の）野営地，陣営, Laks 解任するd her first moments there. "It looked as if it was the end of the world, that everything is dark, cruel, unexplainable, inexplicable," she said.
Under Auschwitz's metal gate with its "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work 始める，決めるs you 解放する／自由な") スローガン, Laks stopped before she entered, 場内取引員／株価 the moment as she spoke, arm-in-arm with her granddaughter:
"Through this 狭くする gate, so many people walked and never （機の）カム 支援する, ending their lives behind these barbed-wire 盗品故買者s."
Five days earlier, at home in Tel Aviv, she had recounted her own arrival at Auschwitz with the same frankness.
With her sisters and thousands of other Jews from the Lodz ghetto, she was 輸送（する）d by train. They were 軍隊d into cattle carts, no windows and scarcely any room to move. She thinks the 旅行 lasted about three days.
When they arrived they underwent '選択': as they lined up on the 壇・綱領・公約, an SS doctor would choose who was fit for （軍の）野営地，陣営 労働 and who was to be killed in the gas 議会s.
It was Joseph Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death", carrying out 選択 that day.
"結局 Mengele （機の）カム over with his dogs and his stick in his 手渡す, 'left, 権利, left, 権利', I don't think he was even looking at the people. He looked bored," laks 解任するd with a slight smirk of contempt.
"I WON THE WAR"
Mengele, an SS doctor, would also 選ぶ 囚人s whom he 支配するd to pseudo-医療の 実験s. He had a particular 利益／興味 in twins.
On the 壇・綱領・公約, he 選ぶd her sisters for 労働 and sent Laks to die. But when Chana begged Mengele not to separate her twin sisters he 掴むd the 適切な時期 for new guinea pigs and sent an SS officer to retrieve Laks from the crematorium.
"I was lucky," said Laks. "Or maybe unlucky," she 追加するd after a moment.
"I いつかs wonder whether animals could 生き残る the 非人道的な cruelty we were 支配するd to," she told Aldar as th ey walked slowly に向かって 封鎖する number 10, which served as Mengele's 研究室／実験室. "I don't think they could."
Outside 封鎖する 10 was an 死刑執行 中庭 where 囚人s were いつかs put up against the brick "塀で囲む of death" and 発射. "From inside, we would hear the 叫び声をあげるs of those 存在 殺人d," said Laks.
But standing with her granddaughter outside the shuttered barrack, Laks was 打ち勝つ by a sense of 勝利.
"I'm here with my granddaughter and I overcame. I won the war. We have a 未来," she said. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Maayan Lubell; Editing by Giles Elgood)
