Book: Keeper of the books from Auschwitz

“Those who left do not suffer anymore ...” she whispers again and again, as if these words are a balm that needs to be applied to the wound several times to make it heal. - Those who left no longer suffer, those who left no longer suffer ...

If there is a God, then there is also a devil. Both travel along the same railway track: one in one direction, the other in the opposite direction. One way or another, good and evil balance each other. You could even say that they need each other. "How would we know that we are doing good, if there were no evil with which we can compare it and see the difference?" - Dita asks herself. And he thinks that in fact, in no other place on the planet could the devil be able to turn around as much as in Auschwitz.

"They were happy, Edita.
- But not for long...
- Life, any life, does not last long. But if a person managed to be happy for at least one moment, such a life was worth living.
- Moment! So little?
- So little. It is enough to be happy exactly the time during which the match lights up and goes out.

- I guess you wanted to ask me this: who can be trusted and trusted in a hole like Auschwitz...
- Yes, exactly!
- As for me personally, I have to admit that I can trust only my best friend.
- Very good. And who is your best friend?
- Myself. I'm my best friend.

The first commandment that a newcomer from an old-timer hears in the camp is that each prisoner must clearly realize his goal: to survive. You will live a few more hours, and they will add up to another day, and this day, having joined the already lived, will become another week. And so slowly: not to make long-term plans, never to invent great goals, to see only one, the most modest - to live every next second, to live it, to survive. To live is a verb that has forms exclusively of the present tense.

The strongest athlete is not the one who comes to the finish line first. The first at the finish line is the fastest. The strongest is the one who gets up after the fall. The one with a backache but running. One who does not leave the distance if the target is far away. And when such a runner reaches the finish line, he will become the winner. Sometimes you cannot become the fastest, even if you really want to, because your legs are not long enough or your lungs are too small. But you can always become the strongest. It depends only on you, on your willpower and on your efforts. I cannot ask you to become the fastest, but I will demand from you that you become the strongest.