![]() 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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