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Prologue -- Introduction -- Book One -- Percussion (In which the author puports to describe the first attempt by the Nazi machine in The Hague, Netherlands, to deport him (at the time, a fetus), together with his mother and his father, to the East) -- Tanya (In which the author contemplates whether it might have been better not to have been born) -- Who's Going on Tuesday? : Westerbork (In which the author attempts to describe the conditions of his internment while still an infant in Westerbork, the Dutch transit camp, through which over a hundred thousand Dutch Jews passed on their way East) -- Bergen-Belsen (In which the author, deported as a toddler (with family still intact) from Westerbork to Bergen-Belsen on February 1, 1944, considers the interaction of life and death in this place) -- The Lost Transport (In which the author considers his journey from Bergen- Belsen to Theresienstadt in April, 1945, his liberation from the Nazis, the death of his father, his separation from his mother, and his adoption by a Dutch-Jewish family) -- Mother, Father, and Other Unfinished Business (In which the author juxtaposes the lives of his parents who, in his memory, were never together) -- Book Two: After the Holocaust -- The Bijenkorf (In which the author considers the joy of living after the Holocaust) -- After the Holocaust, the Holocaust Continues (In which the author describes the grip the Holocaust had on those of its victims that survived) -- The Holocaust in Canada (Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose) -- The Last Witness (Who is left to remember the Holocaust?) -- Epilogue. |
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