Violette was born in Vienna to Jewish parents who immigrated to the United States before World War II. Due to Nazi racial laws, she was forced to leave her university studies, was arrested by the Gestapo, managed to escape, and joined the partisans, where she met her red-haired lover. The novel is based on testimonies of survivors of the extermination camps, and although the names and places have been changed, the descriptions are accurate and based on survivors' testimonials.
Genre: FICTION / Historical / World War IIHe brought a blanket and placed it on her bare shoulders through the tears of her clothes. Then he took a sharp knife and placed it on the whispering coals, "I must burn the wound," he said.
Violette let him do as he told. She was silent and turned her head away. When he attached the knife to the wound, Violette fainted from the intensity of the pain. When she woke up, she found herself inside the building lying on a mattress covered with a thick blanket. She closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
Violette woke up in a panic; she felt a hand touching her. She opened her eyes and saw two men leaning over her.
"How do you feel?" asked the guy who had helped her the day before.
"I slept well, though now I feel my injured arm a little," she said as she examined the wound.
The two sat down next to her, "Where did you come from?" This time Violette realized that this was an interrogation and her life depended on the answers she would provide them.
"I jumped from a German vehicle that was transporting me with other detainees."
"Where were you taken?"
"I do not know, we were ten, and two Germans were guarding us; we were sitting in the back of the truck," she replied.
"Who were the others?"
"We were many in the group, but the rest managed to escape; we were caught."
"Where were you caught?" The older man asked.
"We were in Lublin, in the apartment of one of the group, and they broke into the apartment. Someone tipped them off."
"I asked who the others were, and you do not answer my question" This time, he was sharper in his interrogation.
"We are all young people in their twenties from the university; I joined a part of an underground movement that spread leaflets against the Germans."
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Translated by Isis Prior
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Author review: Isis was on time, very professional and serious, continuous contact with the writer and a creative translation that contributed a lot to the book. |
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Translated by Fernanda Zamorano Grajales
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