![]() ![]() An elegant Parisian lady took great pleasure in this game. Our ship’s passengers amused themselves by throwing coins to the ‘natives,’ who dove to retrieve them. Years later, I witnessed a similar spectacle in Aden. The workers watched the spectacle with great interest. ![]() Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. One day when we had come to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. They would stop and look at us without surprise. Occasionally, we would pass through German towns. ![]() 239–240.)Ĭ “There followed days and nights of traveling. (Wiesel, Elie: All Rivers Run to the Sea. I was going to have to open the gates of memory, to break the silence while safeguarding it.” ![]() My vow of silence would soon be fulfilled next year would mark the tenth anniversary of my liberation. As long as I spoke to them, they would live on, at least in my memory. I wrote to testify, to stop the dead from dying, to justify my own survival. I wrote feverishly, breathlessly, without rereading. I was writing my account of the concentration camp years-in Yiddish. B “I spent most of the voyage in my cabin working. ![]()
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