was grateful for her kindness, and she gave me good cause to be. As the atmosphere worsened toward the end of 1941, the Gestapo began arriving unannounced at the hospital, searching for what they euphemistically called “undesirables.” The senior officer would march in, brandishing a list, and ask a nun for Jews or communists by name. “I do not recognize that name,” she’d reply frostily. “We have only patients here.” But pushing past her, they’d burst into wards and private rooms, check the names on the charts on the bedstead and drag anyone on their list from their beds, still in their
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