Mauthausen
After sixteen miserable days of traveling in cattle cars, Sonia and Blanca arrived at Mauthausen in May, 1945.
In order to reach the camp, the prisoners were forced
to climb over a large hill. Many of the prisoners, including Sonia, were still suffering from typhus and too weak to make it over the hill. The guards shot most of these people, but Blanca dragged Sonia along. When they finally reached the camp, it was so crowded that there were no spare bunks for them. |
One particular African-American soldier carried Sonia out of the barracks and into a
makeshift hospital that the soldiers had set up in the center of the camp.
Sadly, many of the prisoners died shortly after the liberation, and Sonia too was not expected to survive.
For more professional medical attention, she was taken to a Displaced Persons Camp.
For more professional medical attention, she was taken to a Displaced Persons Camp.