In 1944, the Jewish ghetto in the Hungarian town of Nagyvarad faces imminent deportation to death camps in Poland; the narrator of Nine Suitcases is hiding under a false identity in the hospital, along with his wife. As an intellectual, he is asked for advice on such questions as whether a girl should sleep with a guard to try to save her father and whether the sick and dying should be euthanized. And then the cattle trains begin their terrible journeys, taking away his in-laws and thousands of others, despite Allied bombing raids and the approach of the Russians.

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