It’s a horrible way to ask someone to risk their life for you. Low. Selfish. Disgusting. The whole situation makes me angry. And certain. We are not going to live through this. Not all of us. I remember when Izio said that to me, the last night before he went to the camp. And yet, if I were a mother in the ghetto, if I had lost a husband, parents, siblings to the trains—and that’s what Siunek said happened to Mrs. Bessermann—what would I do to get my children out? To save them from that same fate? What would I do for Helena? Anything. That’s what I’d do. I’d cheat and lie and be as low and
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