Chapter Four - Saved Summary

Artie and Vladek discuss Vladek's living conditions. Vladek states that Mala has agreed to return and act as his caretaker if he will give her outright a considerable portion of his financial assets. Vladek suggests that Artie be his caregiver but Artie bluntly refuses. Vladek then asks Artie for advice, but Artie declines to offer any. Vladek then angrily denounces Mala as seeking only his money and compares her unfavorably to Anja. Artie then asks Vladek about Anja's history after Auschwitz. Vladek says he does not know the particulars—only that she was evacuated on a forced march several days before him, that she also passed through Gross-Rosen and was then sent on to Ravensbrück and, ultimately, survived. Vladek then remembers more details about his own final liberation.

Vladek and other Jews traveled by train...