Illumination; The Wedding Reception Was So Extraordinary! Or The End of the Moment That Never Ends, 1941; The First Blasts, and Then Love, 1941; The Persnicketiness of Memory, 1941; The Beginning of the World Often Comes, 1942-1791; Letter Dated 22 January 1998 Summary

In Illumination, Grandfather tells the story of how he murdered his best friend. Grandfather lived in Kolki, a small village not far from Trachimbrod. Hershel was very close to Grandfather and Grandfather's wife, but he had no other friends. Grandfather is convinced that no one in the village even knew Hershel existed because he was so anti-social. On the night the Nazis came, Grandfather, Hershel, and all the other citizens of...