Sublime

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

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

All along Tuvia was sensitive to official and unofficial undercurrents and tried to use them to his and his advantage.

When Sulia stuck to her initial story she was beaten.

On December 17, 1942, the British foreign secretary, Anthony Eden, declares in Westminster that Nazi Germany is exterminating European Jewry.

ethical boundary

“They can condemn us to hunger but they cannot condemn us to starvation.”26

When the trucks arrived from their final trip, perilously overloaded, it was discovered that two of the prisoners had fainted on the journey. The truck driver, who had protested at the lack of space, was careful not to say “I told you so” but it was written on his face. Tejada bit back his annoyance. It would have been simplest to shoot the unconsc