They Went Left

Zofia meets one of the other women who live in the cabin, Breine, who excitedly tells Zofia about her upcoming wedding. Breine invites Zofia to accompany her to dinner, where she meets her other roommate, Esther, a kind girl with glasses.

Zofia notices that Josef eats alone; Breine tells Zofia that this is his usual practice. Breine, Esther, and their other friends discuss how Zofia is trying to find her brother. The group discusses the people whom they have lost or whom they are still looking for. Miriam, a girl who lives in another room of Zofia’s cottage, is upset by the conversation and leaves; she is still looking for her twin sister, upon whom medical experiments were conducted, and she writes ten letters a day to different hospitals and concentration camps.

Miriam learns that a number of her new friends are moving to Eretz Israel.

Zofia goes to the administration building and meets Mr. Ohrmann, who works with the Missing Persons Bureau in Munich. Mr. Ohrmann has found a record of an Alek Federman, aged 14, which could be a misspelling of Abek Lederman, arriving at Dachau.

Zofia insists that she wants to travel to any children’s camps or orphanages around Dachau, despite Mrs.