The Eye and Other Tales

This is a story of survivors. Jan Fischer survived Stalin's labor camps because he recognized the eternal Jewish prayer Shema recited in the breadline of the labor camp. Lidia Szylberstajn evaded the Nazi death camps from which most of her family did not survive, only to survive two years in Siberia, before meeting Jan in Egypt. It is the story of Lidia's cousin, Solange Najman, the only one from their family to survive Auschwitz, and of their uncle, Adophe Szylberstajn, who survived fighting in