Jacob the Liar
Jurek Becker
1969
And the resistance, I will be asked: Where is the resistance? Could it be that the heroes are gathering in the shoe factory or in the freight yard, at least a few? Is it possible that at the ghetto’s southern limits, which are the least clearly defined and hence the hardest to keep under surveillance, dark passages have been discovered through…
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