Book 1: Dr. David Strauss, Part Two: Chapters 13 - 19 Summary

Alix Rothschild is a survivor. She is one of almost a million in the United States alone that survived the concentration camps. Her mother was killed thirty-five years previously in one of the camps, and Buchenwald is where her father died. Alix is now a well-known model, but despite the fans, lights and photographers re-enforcing her fame and good fortune, Alix's mind wanders again and again to the horrors of the past. The current events ensure that now she thinks of almost nothing else.

May 7th, 1945 marked the end of the war in Europe. Alix remembers how the American Forces walked the German citizens through the concentration camps. Still protesting their innocence, they were shown where men, women and children had been hanged in rows of gallows. They were...