Summary

Chapter 14 depicts a memory from the three sisters’ childhood when they picked linden tree flowers with their grandfather. Cibi, Magda, and Livi visit the Catholic church where they, and Vranov’s parishioners, gather to harvest the tree’s flowers for tea.

Livi contracts typhus, in Chapter 15, and Rita agrees to let her stay in the cell block because they are taking anyone in the hospital directly to the gas chambers. Later, when the SS are finished clearing the hospital, Cibi helps Livi to the ward. That night a nurse ushers Livi out of bed and into a latrine stall. The next morning Livi returns to an “empty ward” and knows that the other patients were taken to the gas chambers (127). When Livi recuperates, she is assigned to a new work detail, delivering messages between the SS officers in the camp.

In Chapter...