“We were greeted by dogs and whips, by shouting and screaming, orders to try to empty the train, by confusion, and by men in striped uniform. We didn’t know it at the time, but the men in uniform were the Jews who were brought there before us. They were called ‘Kanada,’ which I found out later. Their job was to empty the train. One of those men saved my life,” she said in 1990.