Front Matter
“Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …” (I.vi)
Book I, Chapter 1
“It would take many books, my life, and no one wants anyway to hear such stories.” (I.1.14)
Book I, Chapter 2
“It was many, many such stories – synagogues burned, Jews beaten with no reason, whole towns pushing out all Jews – each story worse than the other.” (I.2.35)
Book I, Chapter 3
“International laws protected us a little as Polish war prisoners. But a Jew of the Reich, anyone could kill in the streets!” (I.3.63)
Book I, Chapter 4
“Don’t you know? ALL Jewish businesses have been taken over by ‘Aryan managers’…” (I.4.78)
Book I, Chapter 5
“We walked in the direction of Sosnowiec – but where to go?” (I.5.127)
Book I, Chapter 6
“They marched us through the city of Bielsko. We passed by the factory what once I owned … We passed the market where always we bought to eat, and passed even the street where we used to...
Book II, Chapter 1
“I speak German as well as Polish – That’s why I’m a Kapo. Otherwise I’d be a nothing like you … Now the Allies are bombing the Reich. If they win this war, it will be worth something t...
Book II, Chapter 2
“And the fat from the burning bodies they scooped and poured again so everyone could burn better.” (II.2.62)
Book II, Chapter 3
“We lay on top of the other, like matches, like herrings. I pushed to a corner not to get crushed … High up I saw a few hooks to chain up maybe the animals.” (II.3.75)
Book II, Chapter 4
“So, only my little brother, Pinek, came out from the war alive … from the rest of my family, it’s nothing left, not even a snapshot.” (II.4.106)
Book II, Chapter 5
“The Poles went in. They beat him and hanged him … For this he survived.” (II.5.122)