The Choice
thin. e tang of peppers and cherries in my mother’s strudel; her deviled eggs; the pasta she ...
is it like?” I ask. “To belong to a man?” I’m not asking about sex, not entirely. Of course passion ...
en Christmas came, but our liberators did not. And she died the next day. I believe that her inn ...
myself. He leads me, naked and wet, down a hall and into an office with a desk, a chai ...
CHAPTER 4 A Cartwheel At some point in the summer of 1944, Magda and I realize that no more ...
my bread at the evening meal so we can share it in the morning. e officer with the needle and ink is right ...
around again and again. He doesn’t raise his gun. Is he too surprised to shoot me? Am I too dizzy to see? ...
fence, miles of snow, I can tell that his eyes are kind. How strange that kindness now seems like a ...
guards are in another room, I toast the peels in the oven. When we li them eagerly to our mouths with ...
prisoners on top of the trains, the British send the hiss and crash of bombs at us. ...
Within an hour, the ammunition has been reloaded into new train cars and we’re on top again in o ...
spotted my sister. e guards yell at us, count us, guns drawn. A few more shots crack. ere’s no sight ...
says. e factory is nearby, across a little bridge over a fast stream. I lie under the coat, pretending no ...
becomes Ęesh again. Somehow she makes me understand: She has crossed the burning bridge to return to ...
revive her. e SS have gathered near the door, near the last evening light, to eat their rations. ...
my leg. He puts the gun down for a brief second, then raises it again. Click. Click. Worse than the f ...
over. It’s the man from the garden. He’s looking sternly around the room. “Where is the g ...
CHAPTER 5 The Stairs of Death We march for days or weeks again. Since Auschwitz, we have been kept in ...
shouts at me and Magda in German and points us to a different line. I start to move. Magda stays still. ...
the sky. e bodies are everywhere, in heaps. Bodies crooked and splayed like pieces of broken fence. ...
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