But as she watches workers strip room after room that once belonged to her neighbors, she wonders if the hotel that has made the art disappear from the walls will soon make her disappear.
A guard unlocks the door to the strip room and I enter with the other prisoners.
Then she's leaving, and I wind my way between tables to the line of chairs outside the strip room, and take a seat alongside the other prisoners whose visitors have departed.
Treblinka was one of four units of what was officially called Aktion Reinhard; these, in a remote forest location, were extermination camps pure and simple, where the prisoners did not undergo any selection process or stay for any purpose, but were hounded straight from the railway station to the stripping rooms and from there, a naked mass, to the gas chambers.
Whether it's the stripped rooms of once-grand French chateaus, the maze of pipes at a power plant or ruined rollercoasters in an abandoned German theme park, Andy dedicates time to explore these sites in depth and present these lesser-seen areas.
Victor sharecropped tobacco, a reliable cash crop, and in that first harvest season after Vicky Gene was born Imogene set the baby on the floor of the stripping room and helped pull the tobacco leaves from the stalks.
I didn't think there would be cameras [in the strip search rooms] So it's just one more way that they've chipped away at our rights".
This was a smart farmer who had built a strip of rooms on his property (and called it Kang Da Homestay) to take advantage of the newly prosperous Beijingers flocking there on weekends as a refuge from the city.
Overlooking the Strip, my room was large and well decorated, and my comfortable king bed beckoned.
Some of this came from former offices just inside the Constitution Avenue entrance, some from the elimination of confusing nooks and crannies; the rest is from stripping some rooms down to their original walls and excising bulky window casings and radiators.
