Summary

Chapters 39-43 jump ahead to 1954. The war has been over for almost 10 years, and Christopher is sitting in a radio station being interviewed. He has been nicknamed the Angel of Auschwitz for the women and children he saved during his tenure there. The interviewer insists that Christopher is a hero, though he still seems disappointed with himself because he did, in his role as head accountant, deliver hundreds of thousands of various currencies to the Reich. During the interview, Christopher is looking around for a girl named Hannah, though he doesn’t see her. At this point, the reader does not know who Hannah is, only that Christopher feels incomplete without her nearby.

It is during his radio interview that Christopher suddenly sees Rebecca standing outside the studio. He stops talking and the interviewer has to cut their air-time short, since Christopher goes...