When you arrive at Bergen-Belsen, you are immediately put to work. Besides teaching Nazis how to cut diamonds, you are also required to cut many diamonds every day. You feel guilty because you know that your skill is helping the German army. Still, you must survive. You decide to cut the stones unevenly, hoping that this will make them less useful in the German war effort. Doing this makes you feel better. Despite the sabotage, you are skillful enough to continue through the war.
After the war, in 1946, you are among the first group of Jews emigrating to Palestine. From Germany, you travel by train, first to Lyon and then to Marseilles where you celebrate a Pesach seder. The SS Campollion takes you across the Mediterranean to Haifa. Then, after spending eight days at the transit camp in Athlit where all processing is completed, you are allowed to leave. You return to Haifa and establish your diamond cutting business. You decide to live the rest of your life there, practicing the skills which saved you from death in a concentration camp.
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