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Instead, I gave her something that was of value to me: my forgiveness...Forgiving her did not restore my family...It was not a new beginning. It was not...an end. My forgiveness was...an acknowledgment of the fact that I still lived; it was proof that their experiments...was all for naught...In my forgiveness, their failure to obliterate me was made clear.

Such a powerful book. Stasha, one of the young narrators, speaks about Elma, one of Mengele's nurses at Auschwitz:

"Nothing about her was vague or negotiable. Some might call this a strong personality. I wanted to call it that, just to be human and generous. But it was obvious that what she really possessed was emptiness so vast that it managed to approximate power."