44165 was this camp number of Alina Dąbrowska who at the age of 20 went to Auschwitz. Today she is 95 years old and is one of the last surviving witnesses of Auschwitz. As a teenager, Alina Dąbrowska (then Bartoszek) worked in the German factory for armaments in Pabianice. She knew German and how to type so got a job as a typist. In the meantime, she began working for the underground and passed all German documents to members of the Home Army. On 13 May 1942 she was arrested on her mother’s 50th birthday. After 13 months in a German prison, she signed a document stating that she was “an enemy of the state and the German people”, after which she was deported to Auschwitz. One of her most difficult moments was when she first crossed the camp threshold. All women looked the same: they had bare heads, some wore scarves, they were screaming, jumping, arguing. She thought it was literally hell. She was new so was given a place to sleep on the ground. There was one blanket and she did not know whether to cover herself with it or put it on. Initially, she worked in the fields but the Nazis later made her type and for three months she types lists of murdered Jews.
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