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See Under: Love [עייך ערך אהבה]
Author(s): Corey Fischer
Herr Neigel, a concentration camp commander, discovers an old Jewish man who keeps coming out alive from the gas chambers, unable to die. When he summons the man, Anshel Wasserman, to his office, he discovers that Wasserman was the author of Neigel's favorite book series as a child: <em>The Children of the Heart</em>. He makes a deal with Wasserman: Wasserman will tell him new adventures of <em>The Children of the Heart</em>, a chapter each night, and in return Neigel will try to kill Wasserman, who wants to die. But every time he is shot, Wasserman survives. Wasserman starts trying to reach into Neigel's heart, changing him, evoking his humanity.
Format:Drama
Snapshot
Nationality of Author:U.S.
Experience(s) Chronicled:Concentration and Extermination Camps | Survivors and Subsequent Generations
Tags: gas chambers
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