Mothers and children, wives, husbands and lovers, who had imagined a few days earlier that they were embarking on a temporary separation, who had embraced on the platform of the station with some pieces of last-minute advice, sure that they would see one another a few days or a few weeks later, deeply entrenched in their idiotic human faith in the future, this parting causing barely a pause in the course of their everyday concerns, found themselves abruptly and irremediably divided, prevented from meeting or communicating with one another, because the gates were closed some hours before the prefectural decree was published and, of course, it was impossible to consider individual cases.
Amak eta haurrak, ezkon senideak, egun batzuk lehenago ustez denboraldi baterako bereiztea erabaki zuten maitaleak, gure geltokiaren andenetan bizpahiru artamendu eskuan zutela elkar besarkatu zutenak, handik egun edo aste batzuetara berriz ere elkar ikusiko zutelakoan, giza konfiantza ergelean murgildurik, beren ohiko eginkizunetatik joate hauengatik apenas kezkatu gabe, han ikusi zituzten euren buruak bat-batean urrundurik baliabiderik gabe, biltzeko edo komunikatzeko eragotzirik. Zeren prefekturaren agindua argitara azaldu baino ordu batzuk lehenago jarri baitzuten indarrean, jakina, ezinezkoa izanik kasu partikularrak kontuan hartzea.