Other trains pass by in a different direction. The smell of sweat, excrement and urine permeates the car. People grow panicky, irritable, frantic. After eight hours, about 25 of the people have passed out or died. After 20 more hours, the train stops again.
People cry out for water as they hear voices outside.
A machine gun sprays the car and four people fall with blood flowing from the bodies. Your sister is one of them. The doors open - air rushes in. There are dogs, men with guns. Prisoners in striped uniforms take suitcases, old people and the dead out of the car.