Table of Contents
A Note about the Text xiii
Maps xiv
Prologue: Two Dreams xvii
Part I
1 A Small Thing 3
2 Faye Dunaway as an Invaded Country 8
3 Word Gets Around 23
4 Bad Student 27
5 It's Oprah's Fault 33
6 Introductions 39
7 Fathers and Sons 43
8 An Education 48
9 Aunt Karina's Pancakes 59
10 War 64
11 This Kind of World 68
12 A Good Get 81
13 Our Anne Frank 86
14 The Human Heart 103
15 Water 106
Part II
16 Yitzhak Arad 111
17 Animals 116
18 Mirele Rein/High Holidays 131
19 Chaya Palevsky née Porus 141
20 Messenger 146
21 Lili Holzman 152
22 Poligon 162
23 Day of Mourning and Hope 171
24 Arturas Karalis 175
Part III
25 Lost 183
26 Planners, Diggers, Guards, Shooters 194
27 Devil in a Glass Jar 216
28 The Translator 221
29 Railroad Town 225
30 Elena Stankeviciene née Gagis 233
31 Bucket 236
32 Devil's Auction 240
33 Lucky Bird 243
Part IV
34 Bad Man/Good Man 251
35 Shooter 267
36 Inside/Outside 269
37 A Game of Life and Death 280
38 Mistakes 286
39 Anton Lavrinovich 296
40 Josef Beck 302
41 Illeana Irafeva 306
42 Work 310
43 Jump 320
Part V
44 January 2014 329
45 Šakotis 331
46 Gone 345
47 Given Back 353
48 Robin Fish 358
49 Witnesses for the Prosecution 361
50 The Company We Keep 365
51 Only God Knows 371
52 Memory 378
Epilogue 391
Acknowledgments 393
List of Illustrations 399
Notes 403
Bibliography and Archives Consulted 425