CONTENTS

Translator’s Foreword

Alienation

Exchange

New Arrivals

Without Pity

Death of the Zugang

Salvation

The Roar of the Beast

The Infirmary

What Kind of a Person Was Orli Reichert?

The Fight for Masha’s Life

A Plate of Soup

Erika’s Red Thiangle

A Peculiar Roll Call

The Block of Death

Morituri te Salutant

Marie and Odette

Esther’s First Born

Old Words—New Meanings

Children

A Living Torch

The Little Gypsy

Taut as a String

The Extermination of the Midgets

Natasha’s Triumph

The Price of Life

The Lovers of Auschwitz

The Dance of the Rabbis

Revenge of a Dancer

The Verdict

Friendly Meetings

Old Women/

Ehrenburg Addresses Us

The New Year’s Celebration

The Bewitched Sleigh

The Camp Blanket

In Pursuit of Life

The Plagues of Egypt

Without the Escorts

The First Days of Freedom

The Road Back

Editors’ Afterword

Glossary