It would be Fruma in English (it's a Yiddish name from the word Frum).
on a bank in 27th block
In English: in the 27th block or block 27.
typhoid selection
Please add this as a footnote if you can, by adding (after" typhoid selection")
this is how it works:
Also, it's spelt Kapo.
Thanks for adding this translation. It is important.
- 1. At the time when in the fall of 1943 was a typhoid epidemic there were often selections but there was no need to take off clothes till naked. They used to lock at the tongue. A with tongue was a verdict for gas. On the described selection nobody was taken to the gas chamber as usual, but they marked something near the number of an individual prisoners. After two weeks they called numbers of women during a blockade in the camp and dragged them undressed to their death. H.B.
Halina Birenbaum 5.7.1994
http://www.zchor.org/birenbaum/halina.htm#fruma