6 The camps

Chapter 6 The camps The Franks stood pressed against the wall, clutching their bags. Cracks of light came in through grids of rusted wire netting. The journey went on and on. People jostled around, trying to get near the crack in the door, to get away from the stench. Anne was horribly tired and stiff. She wanted to lie down on the floor, but Otto wouldn't let her. "You'll be stepped on," he said. Anne saw that it was true. Every time someone tried to sit, feet trampled on them from all sides.

法兰克人紧紧靠着墙站着，手里抓着他们的包。 从锈迹斑斑的铁丝网里透进来缕缕光线。 旅程继续下去。 人们挤来挤去，试图靠近门缝，以避开恶臭。 安妮累得要命，浑身僵硬。 她想躺在地板上，但奥托不让。 “你会被踩到的，”他说。 安妮看出这是真的。 每当有人想坐下时，他们就会被四面八方的脚踩到。

"Lean on me when you're tired," Otto said. Every now and then, Anne was able to climb up and peer through the rusted wire netting. She caught glimpses of beautiful, endless cornfields. For a moment, she was able to forget she was on a train in the midst of a war. Edith was busy with their overalls. She was trying to unpick the red thread, hoping that without it they could pretend they weren't convict prisoners. No one knew which camp the train was going to. "Perhaps Auschwitz, in Poland," some whispered. It was a name that filled everyone with dread. At the end of the third day, in the gathering dark, the train finally came to a stop.

“累了就靠在我身上，”奥托说。 安妮时不时地爬上去，透过生锈的铁丝网往外看。 她瞥见了一望无际的美丽玉米地。 有那么一瞬间，她忘记了自己是在一辆战争中的火车上。 伊迪丝正忙着整理他们的工作服。 她试图解开红线，希望没有红线，他们可以假装自己不是囚犯。 没有人知道火车开往哪个营地。 “也许是奥斯维辛，在波兰，”一些人低声说。 这个名字让每个人都充满了恐惧。 第三天快结束时，夜色渐浓，火车终于停了下来。

Rifle butts pounded on the door. "Jews out! Jews out!" shouted male voices. Climbing out with stiff limbs, the first thing Anne saw was the glare of bright, bluish, neon lights. "Women to one side, men to the other," said a voice over a loudspeaker. With whips and cudgels, guards forced the men and women apart. Anne was shunted away from her father. Looking around, the last glimpse Otto had of his daughters were Margot's eyes, filled with terror.

枪托砰砰地敲着门。 “犹太人!犹太人滚出去！”男性的声音喊道。 安妮四肢僵硬地爬了出来，首先映入眼帘的是明亮的蓝色霓虹灯。 “女人站在一边，男人站在另一边，”扩音器里传来一个声音。 警卫用鞭子和棍棒把男女分开。 安妮和她父亲分开了。 奥托环顾四周，最后一眼看到女儿们的是玛戈特充满恐惧的眼睛。

Next came another shout, "Get into rows of five." A tall man with gleaming polished boots divided the women into two columns. One column was made up of the very old and the very young. Guards marched them away. Everyone else, including Anne, her mother and sister were forced to walk in a different direction. On the way they passed buildings with huge clouds of black smoke pouring from the chimneys. And there was a smell. A horrible, horrible smell. "This is a death camp," Anne realized. "They kill people here." "And that's where they burn the bodies, someone said behind her. At the camp they were stripped, forced to shower and then shaved. Lastly, they were handed sack-like dresses and made to line up, so that each woman in turn could have a number tattooed on her arm. Anne, Margot and Edith were sent to their barracks- block number 29. As Anne took in their new surroundings, she almost gagged. The stench of urine was everywhere.

接着又是一声喊叫：“排成五排。” 一个穿着锃亮靴子的高个子男人把女人们分成两队。 一列是由老人和年轻人组成的。 卫兵把他们带走了。其他人，包括安妮、她的母亲和妹妹，都被迫朝不同的方向走去。 在路上，他们经过一些建筑物，烟囱里冒出滚滚黑烟。 还有一股气味。一股非常非常难闻的气味。 “这是一个死亡集中营，”安妮意识到。 “他们在这里杀人。”“那就是他们烧掉尸体的地方，”有人在她身后说。 在营地里，他们被脱光衣服，被迫洗澡，然后剃了胡子。 最后，他们给了她们像麻袋一样的衣服，并让她们排成一排，这样每个女人都可以轮流在手臂上纹上一个数字。 安妮、玛戈特和伊迪丝被送到29号营房。 当安妮进入他们的新环境时，她几乎要吐了。 到处都是尿臭。

Every morning, they woke at half past three to the sound of sharp whistles. Breakfast was a brown liquid slopped into their bowls. Morning and night, in all weathers, they stood outside for their roll call, which could last for up to five hours. Margot and Anne always stood together, both very quiet and withdrawn. Then they marched half an hour to work, to dig an area of grass. There was no point to the work, but the head prisoners, the kapos, ran among them screaming, "Faster! Faster!"

每天早上，他们在尖锐的哨声中三点半醒来。 早餐是一种棕色的液体，倒进他们的碗里。 无论早晨还是晚上，无论天气如何，他们都站在外面点名，这可能会持续长达五个小时。 玛戈特和安妮总是站在一起，两人都很沉默寡言。 然后他们走了半个小时去工作，去挖一块草地。 工作没有任何意义，但是那些领头的囚犯，那些卡普斯，在他们中间跑着，尖叫着：“快点！快!”

For supper they had a slice of bread. It was Anne's job to distribute the bread among their block, which she always did fairly. At ten, they went into their barracks to try to sleep. Edith's only thought now was for her daughters. She begged extra food for them when she could and kept them close to her. Then the news came that another selection was to be made, this time to a factory where the work was less demanding. Anne was rejected as she had scabies, red sores on her body where lice had burrowed beneath her skin. Edith and Margot refused to go without her and Margot chose to go into the scabies barracks with Anne, to keep her company. Edith was in despair without them. Each night, she went to the scabies barracks and dug a hole in the soft earth, so she could pass scraps of food to the children. By now. Margot had scabies too. Days later, another selection was made. Edith, as an older woman, was kept behind at Auschwitz, but Margot and Anne were sent on.

晚饭他们吃了一片面包。 安妮的工作是在他们的街区分配面包，她总是公平地做这件事。 十点，他们走进营房想睡觉。 伊迪丝现在只想着她的女儿们。 她尽可能多地为它们讨点吃的，并把它们放在身边。 接着又传来了另一个选择的消息，这次是去一个工作要求不那么高的工厂。 安妮被拒绝了，因为她有疥疮，她的身体上有红色的疮，虱子在她的皮肤下钻洞。 伊迪丝和玛戈特拒绝离开她，玛戈特选择和安妮一起去疥疮营，陪伴她。 没有他们，伊迪丝感到绝望。 每天晚上，她都会去疥疮营地，在松软的土地上挖一个洞，这样她就可以把残羹剩饭分给孩子们。 了。玛戈特也有疥疮。 几天后，又进行了一次选择。 伊迪丝年纪大了，被留在奥斯威辛，而玛戈特和安妮被送去了。