TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION
| PART I: COMING INTO BELGIUM—THE PRE-WAR YEARS | |
| Chapter 1 | My Father Fights in the Kishinev Pogrom, Then Brings the Family to Belgium |
| Chapter 2 | Meatballs, Losing My Bowels, and a Bucket of Mussels |
| Chapter 3 | “Your Son Bernard Is Fighting with Everybody” |
| Chapter 4 | “A Jew Must Have a Trade,” and My Mother Dies |
| Chapter 5 | I Marry Chana Laja and Join the Union, the Imperialists Lift Their Heads |
| PART II: FLIGHT FROM BELGIUM | |
| Chapter 6 | Hitler Invades Belgium, I’m Separated from My Family |
| Chapter 7 | We Become Christians in Vichy, I’m Summoned to Saint-Liguaire |
| Chapter 8 | I Risk My Neck to Make Ladies’ Eight-Button Gloves in Saint-Liguaire |
| Chapter 9 | “Seig Heil, I’m a Belgian and I’m Proud of You” |
| Chapter 10 | Cadavers on Phone Wires, Schleppers on the Train, and I Arrive in Riom |
| Chapter 11 | Family Reunion, Colored Water, and Eggs on the Cross |
| PART III: THE MOVE TO VOLVIC AND THE BEGINNING OF LIFE IN THE RESISTANCE | |
| Chapter 12 | Life Begins in Volvic |
| Chapter 13 | The Eyes of the Bull |
| Chapter 14 | “Do You Know How to Steal?” |
| Chapter 15 | “I Am Jewish” |
| Chapter 16 | Emory Powder and 1,001 Nights |
| Chapter 17 | Vials of Diseases |
| PART IV: FROM MAQUIS TO AMERICA | |
| Chapter 18 | The Maquis |
| Chapter 19 | Like Blood out of the Aorta of a Pig |
| Chapter 20 | Return to Belgium |
| Chapter 21 | Never Be Afraid |
EPILOGUE (1996)
APPENDIX, by Philip Rosen
FINAL WORD TO READERS