Diaries, 1943-1944

to hang - to hang to chop - to cut to pinch - to pinch to choose - to choose to measure - to measure to praise - to praise to run - to run to smell - to smell to suck - to suck to sound - to sound to push - to move to torment - to plunder to drag oneself along - to drag on [ ? ] - to tear to snort - to snort to screw - to screw to stride along - to stride to swell - to swell to wave - to wave to devise ways [ ? ] to throw up - to spit to sprout - to grow

St. N.A. A.N. Selma Wijnberg Veemarkt 23 Zwolle Tel.4101

next to the vertical line on the right of the page the word "previously"

in box on the left of the page the words "Currently somewhere in Poland at a hayloft

Bram Maurits Marthijn Selma October 1942 Mother and the boys have gone to Poland and have been killed.

Bram, hopefully is still with Jetty and 2 children in Holland [Holland is underlined] Bep has also been deported to Poland and the rest of my whole family [fam stands for "family"] including all the aunts and uncles

vertically Selma Engel Chaim Engel [ illegible] Engel could be the name of the baby horizontally Selma Engel ix [blank] could be September 1944 Alinek[?] Engel Lawiado illegible

also no right to live and we have fought for it and we were succesful, because we are out of that terrible place. Many girls had boyfriends in Sobibor. Not one of those men did bring his girlfriend along. Only Chajim since recently my so dearly beloved friend. Yes friend, because we were friends when we raced out of Sobibor for 3 to 4 kilometers while we were being shot at fortunately without being hit (I will only tell about how I got out of Sobibor). After having walked run [?] for about half a kilometer I was exhausted

[same as Item 19]