"Where else have you been, tell me" she implores. "Poland," he answers. "That's where I was born, in a city called War…"

"The girl possesses a carefree lightheartedness that makes Barukh feel more acutely the weight of the despair that he …"

""Oh, when will there ever be peace between the old-timers and the newcomers?" one of the listeners sighs."

"Barukh is beside himself: "You are not the boss of my life, do you hear? I am a human being, just like you. Just like…"

"I respect all definitions of art, but I cherish most the definition which states that art is an expression of the des…"

"I think that books lacking such an introduction are like houses that one enters directly from the street, still weari…"

"basically, language is an inadequate and limited instrument. No matter what language a writer speaks, she always hope…"

"Even in the concentration camps, even by the glare of the crematorium flames, there were those who wrote. We were lik…"

"Liberation was announced through loudspeakers. They spoke of freedom. No one believed, or disbelieved. No one danced …"

"Friday the first of September, at six o'clock in the morning, the Germans"