5 Westerbork

Chapter 5 Westerbork August 4, 1944 was a warm, still summer's day. At the heacquarters of the Nazi Secret Police, the telephone rang. An officer picked up the receiver and listened for a while. Then he quickly left the building accompanied by a number of Dutch police. They parked outside Otto's office and marched into the building. "We know everything," the Nazi officer announced. "You're hiding Jews and they're in this building. Take us to them." Helplessly, Victor Kugler, the Franks' friend and helper, took the police up to the annexe. The police went into each of the rooms, rounding everyone up, forcing them to put their hands in the air. Margot wept softly.

1944年8月4日是一个温暖、宁静的夏日。 纳粹秘密警察总部的电话铃响了。 一位军官拿起听筒，听了一会儿。 随后，他在一些荷兰警察的陪同下迅速离开了大楼。 他们把车停在奥托的办公室外，然后进入大楼。 “我们什么都知道，”纳粹军官宣布。 “你把犹太人藏起来，他们就在这栋楼里。 带我们去见他们。”弗兰克一家的朋友兼助手维克多·库格勒无可奈何地把警察带到了附楼。 警察走进每个房间，把每个人都围起来，强迫他们举起手来。 玛戈特轻轻地哭了起来。

An hour later, they were out on the street, along with Kugler and Kleiman, being ordered into a police van. "I'm sorry," Otto said to Kleiman, on their way to prison. "To think that you're sitting here among us, that we are to blame..." "Don't give it another thought," Kleiman interrupted him. "I wouldn't have done it any differently." Kleiman and Kugler were taken away for questioning. After three days in filthy overcrowded prisons, the eight members of the annexe were sent on a train to Westerbork.

一个小时后，他们和库格勒、克莱曼一起出现在街上，被命令上了一辆警车。 “对不起，”奥托在去监狱的路上对克莱曼说。 “一想到你坐在我们中间，想到我们应该受到责备……” “别再想了，”克莱曼打断了他的话。 “换做是我，也不会有什么不同。” 克莱曼和库格勒被带走问话。 在肮脏拥挤的监狱里呆了三天之后，附属机构的八名成员被送上了开往韦斯特博克的火车。

"At least we're still together," said Otto. After the numbness of the past few days, Anne felt strangely cheerful. "Perhaps the war will end before they can send us to the death camps," she thought. "And right now, right this moment, I'm outside. I feel almost free. I can feel the sun on my face again." At Westerbork, the Franks lined up to register. They were marked down as criminals for being in hiding, and sent to one of the punishment blocks. There, they were stripped of their clothes and handed blue overalls, marked with red thread to show they were criminals, and given wooden clogs to wear. Then the men had their heads shaved and the women had their hair shorn painfully short. Anne minded dreadfully about losing her hair. Otto was sent to the men's barracks, Edith, Margot and Anne to the women's. "Don't worry," Edith told her daughters. "We'll still see Daddy in the evenings. "Yes," whispered Anne, clinging to her mother as if she were a small child again.

“至少我们还在一起，”奥托说。 在过去几天的麻木之后，安妮奇怪地感到高兴。 “也许在他们把我们送到死亡集中营之前，战争就结束了，”她想。 “现在，此时此刻，我在外面。 我觉得几乎自由了。我又能感觉到阳光照在脸上了。” 在韦斯特博克，弗兰克一家排队登记。 他们因为躲藏而被标记为罪犯，并被送到一个惩罚区。 在那里，他们被脱去衣服，给他们一件蓝色工作服，上面用红线做了标记，表明他们是罪犯，还给他们穿上了木屐。 然后男人们剃光头，女人们把头发剪得短得吓人。 安妮非常担心掉头发。 奥托被送到男兵营房，伊迪丝、玛戈特和安妮被送到女兵营房。 “别担心，”伊迪丝告诉她的女儿们。 “我们还是会在晚上去看爸爸。 “是的，”安妮小声说，紧紧抱住母亲，仿佛她又变成了一个小孩子。

Each day, work began at five in the morning, chopping up metal batteries. Anne was horrified when she realized what they had to do. "Chop open the batteries with a chisel and hammer," they were told. "Put tar in one basket and carbon bars in the other." It was messy work. The batteries gave off a kind of dust, and Margot and Anne couldn't stop coughing. "But at least we can talk!" Anne said to the girls, Janny and Lientje, sitting next to her. For lunch they received a piece of stale bread and a few spoonfuls of watery soup.

每天早上五点就开始工作，切割金属电池。 当安妮意识到他们必须做什么时，她吓坏了。 “用凿子和锤子把电池敲开，”他们被告知。 “把焦油放在一个篮子里，碳棒放在另一个篮子里。” 这是一项棘手的工作。电池发出一种灰尘，玛戈特和安妮不停地咳嗽。 “但至少我们能说话了！”安妮对坐在她旁边的两个女孩珍妮和莲杰说。 他们的午餐是一块不新鲜的面包和几勺淡汤。

Margot eyed it dolefully. "I never thought we'd actually be caught," she said. "I know." Anne replied. "But let's stay hopeful. The end of the war must come soon. If we can just stay here, we'll survive." Otto helped calm his daughters too, visiting them at night to tell them stories. A month later, a feeling of panic flooded through the camp. There was to be another transport out of Westerbork, to a camp in the east. A long train of cattle trucks rolled into Westerbork that night. By eleven the next morning, 1,019 people had been loaded on and the doors bolted shut. The van Pelses, Pfeffer and the Franks were among them.

玛戈特悲伤地看着它。“我从没想过我们真的会被抓住，”她说。 “我知道。”安妮回答道。“但让我们保持希望。 战争必须尽快结束。 如果我们能留在这里，我们就能活下来。” 奥托也帮助他的女儿们平静下来，晚上去看望她们，给她们讲故事。 一个月后，一种恐慌情绪席卷了整个营地。 还有一次从韦斯特博克出发的运输，前往东部的一个营地。 那天晚上，一长列运牛卡车开进了韦斯特博克。 到第二天上午11点，已有1019人上车，车门闩上了。 范佩尔斯家族、普费弗家族和弗兰克斯家族都在其中。