Sublime

Pesia had lost her entire family when they were taken out of the bunker.

Kesler and his people remained

On that day most of its 1,500 inhabitants, including Pesia’s family, were shot on the outskirts of town.

remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. I rememb

The three Russians were glad to meet the five fugitives. They were particularly interested in

Toward the end of 1942 the Germans had stepped up the mass killings.

And they were different: they were worse. The tragedies of the Holocaust are endless, but one stands out among them in the historical record. As the Jews were being culled as casually as a virus-infected stock of fowl, they comforted themselves with the thought that their brothers outside of Europe and the Good Samaritans of the nations, particular

Shocked, the Belorussian said, “I don’t want to. I will help you. Come, let me take you back to your hiding place!”

“And Yael?” “She’s fine. She’s in Auschwitz.”