Sometimes you have to choose between wrong choices and no right choices. You just have to choose which wrong choice feels least wrong.

During the selection process upon arrival at Auschwitz, mothers were asked to hand over their babies to the elderly women, but those who refused were sent to the gas chamber.

Dr. Gustav Schonfeld wrote about what happened after his family was transported to Auschwitz.

During the selection process at Birkenau, his father ran ahead in the line to see what was going on.

Then ran back to tell his wife that she should let her mother hold her baby, and she should tell the selections officer that she was a nurse.

This saved his mother’s life because if she had not handed her baby over to her mother, she too would have been sent to the gas chamber.

Dr. Schonfeld wrote that his mother never forgave herself for giving her baby to her mother.

Sophie was forced to choose which one of her two children would be gassed and which would proceed to the labor camp.

To avoid having both children killed, Sophie chose her son, Jan, to be sent to the children’s camp, and her daughter, Eva, to be sent to her death.