Darrell's reflections on the interview

It's been about a month now since we met Ms. Firestone and mostly everything has been said by my group-mates and myself. But what still stands out to me and what I haven't digested is that she said her life was saved from going on a death march. That is remarkable to me, that the "death march" saved her life, because it sent her from Auschwitz to a forced labor camp. And after being there for four months the camp was liberated by the Russians. Which to me just gets weirder, because a Russian officer tells her that his men will be pillaging so stay inside out of sight until they have moved on because if not she would probably be raped. Being raped by your liberators was a concept I never imagined. And then being released with no food, money, or extra clothes, just having the things you have at the camp and having to fend for yourself as you try to make your way back to your homeland. That to me is probably the most remarkable part of the story. Yeah you're free but things haven't really gotten any better.