Loses half a point for the pointless introduction. Just read the account, of a woman who chooses to stay in German to tend to a ailing mother and asks questions about that horrible choice of sending her mother to an earlier grave and being able to escape what happened later or having tended her mother, having had to face Auschwitz. And the story continues like this, pointing out the terrible choices she had to make, offering glimpses of them, fragments that are heartbreaking.

Lucie Adelsberger offers her testimony here, offers it without apology or much sentimentalism. As a doctor she had value, this testimony is heartbreaking and heartwarming, that she survived without having too much hate and only pleading that we learn from the lessons is heartwarming.

The passages about saving poison to kill babies almost broke my heart. ( )