text:  We couldn't wash either ourselves or our clothes, and soon this was obvious to anyone looking at us. Anyway, the Germans made sure we were given the worst jobs to do. My sister was then seven years old, but she had to carry heavy bricks. As we all had to work, my little three-year-old brother was left to his own devices. He did not survive the gypsy camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau.