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FEBRUARY 1945. WE ARE SITTING ON a bench in a motionless cattle car. I can't pull myself away from the open door and the wind whipping in off the snowy plains. I didn't want to be a constant guest in Budapest; I wanted to go homea weeklong trip to Berettyóújfalu, the town our parents had been...

On July 18, 200-, at 18:00 GMT, the Queen Mary 2 left Southampton with 2,912 passengers and roughly half as many crew. She arrived at the Brooklyn dockyards on the morning of July 24, with 2,911 passengers. In a brief wire service piece, the New York Times identified the missing passenger as...

1 I hired a cleaning woman. She entered my life as simply as that, because I'd torn off a little tab of paper at the pharmacy. It was the last of six she had cut at the bottom of her xeroxed notice, which was taped to the window. A small vertical paper tab, with the superimposed digits of her...

The piano wasn't Simon Nardis's hobby. It was much more than a hobby. The piano was for him what painting was for Ingres. He stopped playing the way Ingres would have stopped painting. It would lave been a pity in Ingres' case. It was a pity in Simon Nardis's case. After his desertion he took up...