Catrina: The Holocaust
Chapter 7
Catrina never spoke anymore after she saw Keifer go through the gas chamber door and the screams. She became a distressed, mute child, only working, no talking.
A walking zombie, you might say. All she ever done was sleep, eat, drink and work.
She fainted a lot and was an anorexic child, which is no surprise considering the small amounts of food she was given. As if things couldnt get worse Catrina had horrible living conditions now she had been here for over a year, her clothes were small and tattered. She smelt bad and body lice begun to spread. Catrina didnt know how much longer she could last like this.
She worked all day and at night she dreamed of Keifer. She would wake up screaming so many times she was put into a cabin of her own so not to disturb other prisoners.
The most hardest thing for her to deal with was when Keifer's corpse was burning in front of her. His last words etched around him, and shocked filled eyes. Catrina still did not understand what sick twisted person would do this to her fellow jews.
Gradually Catrina was unable to work, she became mad beyond belief and was always talking to an invisible Keifer, the last remnants of her child like self...her imagination. She began to claim she could see death, cold, dark, clammy hands that groped at her, willing her to sleep for ever more.
"We ought to kill that child", an officer said one day
"Is it not more intresting to watch her suffer slowly?", the other natzi replied
As they both watched in intrest, the lonely child with lank black hair, wandering by.