The Book of Lost Names

by Kristin Harmel

Eva couldn’t imagine how she could pretend to the French police that all of this was fine. But then again, how were the guards here pretending it to themselves? There were dozens of officers walking around, more moving in the towers overhead, and none of them looked repulsed or even bothered by the atrocity. Could they all be that evil?

This is absolutely heart-wrenching. The one of the most horrifying things to even try to imagine is a time when people turned a blind eye to the slaughter of innocent children, and watching families torn apart. How anyone can even be human to stand by and watch thousands of people suffer is something I’ll never understand. This is why I find this story so powerful because it truly shows the incredible altruism and heroism of the hundreds of people that risked their own lives to save others.