Summary

Chapter 7. There is tension again during sharing time, a continuation of sorts from dinner. Sister Catherine arrives and invites everyone to join her morning worship services, annoying the priest leading sharing time. Then a German stands and tells the group that his uncle was a soldier who confessed to his love for a Jew girl. He was sent to Auschwitz as a guard. He was eventually castrated for refusing to follow orders. Another woman, Rebecca, talks of how her family was taken to Auschwitz and all killed because she cried out when the Gestapo broke into their house, forcing the family to give up their hiding place. Olin later meets Stefan, a monk defrocked for pushing a petition of reform on the Pope without going through proper channels.

Olin thinks again about his past. His grandfather learned through his estate agent that the...