“For me, the hardest thing to bear is not that Jews were massacred in Jedwabne and the area, but that it was done with such cruelty and that the killing gave so much joy.”
After the horror of Kristallnacht in November 1938, the author’s frightened parents lived in mortal fear of Nazi persecution.
“[Gretel Wachtel’s] defiance of the Gestapo and her willingness to serve time in a concentration camp gives Ms.
(The Lyons Press, 2008)
