Imagine if you were on your way with other Jews you never seen or even knew of Auschwitz; thinking you were not going to survive in the Holocaust or never knowing what's going to happen to you. Jan Komski was one of the survivors. On June 14, 1940, Jan Komski was sent to a camp with around 750 Jews in the same situation. Before he knew it no Jews could go anywhere. School and swimming pools became off limit to them. When he goes to Auschwitz, Komski was later to be identified. He got the number 564 tattooed and was one of the people who were “horrible”. “It was miserable.” he said “because they barely had any food and if they wanted food the next morning they had to wake up at four o’clock in the morning, waiting in line, in front of the bakery for hours for a loaf of bread.” (United States 1). …show more content…
In the most nerve-racking, yet the most unbelievably shocking way anyone has probably escaped in the Holocaust. Over the months, Komski and three other Jews who were with him had collected parts of the Germans Uniforms. Jan had wanted to do this so he could pose as a guard and escape the camps. Then Jan and the other guys who were planning to escape with him had stolen the documents from the camp office and forge an ID from the “guard”. Soon after the escape, Komski was re-arrested had to spend two more years in a various camp. There he was beaten and wounded carelessly, but luckily wasn't infected by the open cuts