As they wound on through the forest, Hannah guessed that everyone from the shtetl was there., It took a moment for Hannah to realize that the second was a violin., The skin on her face suddenly felt stretched tight across her cheekbones and her eyes began to prickle with tears., The colonel informed us that they have been sent for resettlement already., Better the fox to guard the hens and the wolves to guard the sheep., They climbed into the trucks in family groups, reluctant to get parted. , Ahead of them was a train station, its windows sparkling in the bright spring sun., More and more, the villagers began to recognize baskets and bags belonging to their families. , Hannah was suddenly so cold she couldn't move., The boxcars traveled for four days and nights., The train made only two stops the entire time., You are zugangi, newcomers, the lowest of the low., Two benches away, Esther was crying softly as she took off her right shoe., They waited nearly twenty minutes in the cold room and the silence was frightening., The room that they were herded into was a small, low-ceilinged place with a single window high up under the eaves., The man looked at her and his eyes were the saddest she'd ever seen, a muddy brown, like river sludge., The smokestack and the ominous black curl emerging from it, dissipating against the bright blue sky, reminded her of something., Hannah woke to a strange mechanical bellowing. , The door to the barracks was flung open and a guard stuck his head in., At the first table, a girl handed them each a metal bowl.,

The Devil's Arithmetic

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