Still Alive by Ruth Kluger

Author:Ruth Kluger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2011-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

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Liesel remained true to her father. He couldn’t get out, she explained to me, because he had seen too much. Therefore the chance of a labor camp wasn’t for her, though they would have taken her more readily than me, since she was a few years older. She didn’t even try. She wanted to stay with him, and so she was killed with him.

She had no illusions about her death. I wouldn’t have sacrificed myself for my mother, though I would have considered it natural if she had stayed with me. Liesel was a child who loved her father literally more than her own life, and my own moral mediocrity precludes me from commenting on, let alone analyzing, what went on in her. All I can do is mention her here once more in order to tell the end of this aborted, short life. When I think of Liesel, whom I never liked and therefore don’t admire (you can’t admire without liking), my own rescue from those flames seems even less significant than at other times.

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