This is lyrical and beautiful. The second sentence especially is wonderful. Welcome to Ficly!

Thanks very much Jessica!

I love the poignant and awful beauty of this piece. With the subject matter it could easily have been sentimental, but the well-chosen haunting details and the way it’s told through implication make it really work.

Having the name in in the tags must mean this is a portrayal of a real person.. I’m sure many stories similar to this one have been lost. That is the real tragedy.

Thank you Garsecg for the kind words!

And thank you as well ElshaHawk; also, yes, I wrote this after I read “Night” by Elie Wiesel, who was a survivor of Auschwitz. One passage in particular about a fellow Jew in the camps who was a seasoned violinist just tore my heart out, I had to write about it. It was an incredible story.