<A soldier went along the train a couple of times calling a medic. As nobody responded I said that being a veterinary assistant I was able to render aid to a human if it was an urgent necessity. It was a horror in the next carriage! There were at least 18 children there. And a girl came up in that horrible corner of hell. She was the thirteenth kid of a miserable scared woman. Her husband, a gendarme, escaped to Romania and all the relatives of such defectors are subject to exile.>

I made vain efforts to control bleeding with nobody to help! It was like a nightmare: on the floor a birthing mother bleeding to death. No shroud, no cloth, no water. A candle end is dying out. Kids are everywhere, scared and feckless. A lot of people around but everybody is absorbed in their own sorrows and nobody tries to help.

<I said it was impossible to get by without a doctor, and while I was making clumsy efforts to help they managed to fetch a doctor in some carriage, a Jew called Lifshits, and together we muddled through.>