survivor as researcher

Recounts the efforts of the author, who was deported to Auschwitz at 16, to find written proof of her mother's murder by the Nazis. The quest broadens to include an account of the aborted attempt to barter with the Germans for the lives of Bialystok's Jewish children. Successful in her search for documentation of her mother's death, the author concludes that the Bialystok children, all of whom were eventually murdered, were pawns in a larger political game being played out by the Nazis.