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It is because of these men’s fortitude that we know what we know about Auschwitz. For the first time, I consider what it was like for people to first hear of the atrocities. My heart broke as Walter sprang out of his chair enraged when Jewish lawyers refused to believe that Germans were capable of such things.
The importance of multilingualism is highlighted through the translator of the report.

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At this point in the book I’m just so moved by the small revolutionary actions with enormous impact. The people who look the other way or “accidentally” drop bread in the escapees’ path. The rain that miraculously pours down on the Hitler youth and allows the men to continue their escape. The tone has completely changed and I feel like I have been invigorated after “surviving” with them.

On being turned away while wearing the Star of David and new curfews: “ Walter did not rebel against any of these rules. He was not even that shocked by them. Perhaps because the ratchet had tightened slowly over time so that each new turn did not seem so extraordinary considering what had come before.”