Part 4, Chapter 24 Summary

It is December, 1943, and Chris De Monti makes the final journal entry. He is in Sweden with Gabriela whose baby is soon to be born. When the war ends with German defeat, which is not a certainty, he will return to Warsaw and retrieve the journals. Wolf, Rachel, and Tolek fight with a Jewish partisan group and Stephan Bronski remains with his adopted Catholic family in Lublin. He closes the journal with thoughts from Alex Brandel. At the height of man's inhumanity to man, there are those who arise to great nobility.

Part 4, Chapter 24 Analysis

Chris has been profoundly changed by his experience. When he was first assigned to Warsaw, he was an embittered and frustrated journalist, believing that most of the world truly does not care about the suffering of fellow humans if that suffering is not in their own...