After the Holocaust the bells still ring

Prologue

Introduction

Book One

Percussion (In which the author puports to describe the first attempt by the Nazi machine in The Hague, Netherlands, to deport him (at the time, a fetus), together with his mother and his father, to the East)

Tanya (In which the author contemplates whether it might have been better not to have been born)

Who's Going on Tuesday? : Westerbork (In which the author attempts to describe the conditions of his internment while still an infant in Westerbork, the Dutch transit camp, through which over a hundred thousand Dutch Jews passed on their way East)

Bergen-Belsen (In which the author, deported as a toddler (with family still intact) from Westerbork to Bergen-Belsen on February 1, 1944, considers the interaction of life and death in this place)

The Lost Transport (In which the author considers his journey from Bergen- Belsen to Theresienstadt in April, 1945, his liberation from the Nazis, the death of his father, his separation from his mother, and his adoption by a Dutch-Jewish family)

Mother, Father, and Other Unfinished Business (In which the author juxtaposes the lives of his parents who, in his memory, were never together)

Book Two: After the Holocaust

The Bijenkorf (In which the author considers the joy of living after the Holocaust)

After the Holocaust, the Holocaust Continues (In which the author describes the grip the Holocaust had on those of its victims that survived)

The Holocaust in Canada (Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose)

The Last Witness (Who is left to remember the Holocaust?)

Epilogue.