Somehow dinner conversation turned to Holocaust stories. One lady had a 102 year old Auschwitz survivor who had been deliberately infected with cancer, but had miraculously survived. Volunteer German women would beat in inmates every night and the girls with the darkest bruises would be killed the next day. At first, they told each other the bruises weren't so bad, but then they began to be truthful as the numbers dwindled. The survivor's husband tried to get his wife to stop her visits to high schools, but nobody could curtail her mission. A table full of elderly adults piously nodded.
