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I’d barely eaten, hadn’t slept more than a few minutes since ����ó��, and I’d walked nearly thirty kilometers in a day.

“He asked me to marry him. And they killed him. In the work camp at ����ó��. He was Jewish.”

There was another brother, Chaim, a physician studying in a town in Italy I’d never heard of; a sister not far away in ����ó��; and Mr. Diamant, who stayed at home, recuperating from something that had to do with his blood.

He wasn’t going to the labor camp in ����ó�� after all, he said.

Poles from Przemyśl were going to Germany and what used to be Czechoslovakia, doing their duty for the glory of the Fatherland, while our city’s dirty Jews were earning their keep in Bełżec and at the Janowska work camp in ����ó��, he said.