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  For Anna

  CONTENTS

  Author's Note

  i

  1

  Auschwitz, 24th July 1943

  1

  2

  Berlin, 14th November 1929

  5

  3

  Auschwitz, 24th July 1943

  12

  4

  Berlin, 18th November 1929

  17

  5

  Auschwitz, 24th July 1943

  28

  6

  Berlin, 18th November 1929

  31

  7

  Auschwitz, 24th July 1943

  36

  8

  Berlin, 24th December 1929

  40

  9

  Auschwitz, 24th July 1943

  49

  10

  Berlin, 24th December 1929

  55

  11

  Auschwitz, 25th July 1943

  63

  12

  Berlin, 17th July 1930

  68

  13

  Auschwitz, 30th July 1943

  75

  14

  Berlin, 30th July 1930

  77

  15

  Auschwitz, 17th August 1943

  84

  16

  Berlin, 30th July 1930

  87

  17

  Auschwitz, 29th October 1943

  95

  18

  Berlin, 10th February 1931

  104

  19

  Auschwitz, 1st December 1943

  108

  20

  Berlin, 15th June 1931

  117

  21

  Auschwitz, 13th December 1943

  123

  CONTENTS continued

  22

  Berlin, 16th June 1931

  125

  23

  Auschwitz, 3rd February 1944

  132

  24

  Berlin, 2nd August 1934

  135

  25

  Auschwitz, 4th February 1944

  141

  26

  Berlin, 20th May 1936

  147

  27

  Auschwitz, 4th February 1944

  154

  28

  Berlin, 29th January 1938

  157

  29

  Auschwitz, 5th February 1944

  161

  30

  Berlin, 3rd May 1939

  167

  31

  Auschwitz, 6th February 1944

  175

  32

  Berlin, 7th November 1941

  183

  33

  Auschwitz, 7th February 1944

  185

  34

  Berlin, 2nd May 1942

  196

  35

  Auschwitz, 7th February 1944

  203

  36

  Berlin, 19th July 1943

  210

  37

  Auschwitz, 9th February 1944

  215

  38

  Berlin, 20th July 1943

  219

  39

  Auschwitz, 10th February 1944

  223

  40

  Germany, 23rd July 1943

  232

  41

  Auschwitz, 10th February 1944

  237

  42

  Auschwitz, 24th July 1943

  241

  43

  Auschwitz, 10th February 1944

  243

  Epilogue

  248

  Author's note

  It was only after I had finished writing this story that I realised that it would be possible to read it in three different ways; starting at page one and finishing on the last page, reading it in chronological order, or starting on any random chapter and reading around to the beginning again. The story is effectively cyclical, as unfortunately, is history.

  This novel is written in tribute to the men, women, and children who suffered in the concentration camps of Europe during the Nazi era; to those who died, to those who survived, and to those who live with it still.

  “We should consider every day lost on which

  we have not danced at least once.”

  Friedrich Nietzsche