“Did I tell you the family tragedy about the pillow my family lost at the start of the 1914 war? I was seven… we lived too close to the border… it wasn’t safe… Someone rode past us and told us that we’d dropped a pillow a few miles back. A guy traveling to Amstow picked it up.”

35

“He looked with a light a long time in my eyes and told: ‘Mr. Spiegelman, your left is perfect!’”

40

“They took us to a place near where it was many war prisoners. The Jews they made to stand separate.”

51

“Of course, I only said I got half what I really made. Otherwise they wouldn’t save anything.”

77

“Everyone came very nice dressed. They tried so that they would look young and able to work, in order to get a good stamp on their passport.”

90

“I just thought of something. My father mentioned that Anja used to keep a diary, and I vaguely remember seeing them on his shelves in the den.”

93

“One thing is certain- as bad as things are in the ghetto, being deported is even worse.”

107

“On Wednesday the vans came. Anja and I saw her father at the window. He was tearing his hair and crying.”

115

“He was a millionaire, but even this didn’t save him his life.”

115

“All guests had to pay big polish taxes… so Pesach took bribes to not register them. But if an inspector came, the guests had to hide themselves away.”

120

“ By the end of 1943 the vans went every Wednesday with more and more and more people from Srodula to Auschwitz until it was very few left.”

121

“…Murderer”

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