Summary

In Chapter 42, Danielle travels alone to Paris, France. She walks through the streets before visiting the Holocaust Museum, which has an exterior that is evocative of Auschwitz. Danielle approaches the Wall of Names, including seventy-five thousand French Jews deported to the concentration camps. Only three percent had survived and she is not ready to search for her Benoit family. After touring the museum, Danielle begins to cry and a woman wordlessly hands her a box of tissues.

Alizée receives a letter from Tante in Chapter 43, containing frenzied writing and no greeting. Alizée’s aunt urges her to obtain a visa for her son Alain. They are both going into hiding and Tante writes, “I am not being hysterical when I tell you that if we do not get out now, we will die. I love you. I have always loved you...