Summary

In Chapter 49, Danielle sits in the Holocaust Memorial Museum and has been crying for “quite a while” (290). She approaches the Wall of Names to find her family. Alizée’s aunt and uncle, Eduard and Chantal, along with their son Alain are on the wall. All three had been sent on convoys to Auschwitz. “A corkscrew of pain twisted inside” Danielle and she presses her hands “to the carved letters, as if the letters were the people, [her] people” (290). Danielle begins to cry again and as she had "expected, both feared and hoped, there was no Alizée" on the list.

The following day Danielle does not want to visit Drancy as the Holocaust Memorial “had been crushing,” but feels she must go; both Alizée’s uncle and Danielle’s grandfather had been imprisoned there, and possibly Chantal and Alain as well...