A Hanukkah Gift, Part II
A wounded German soldier and a Jewish girl hiding from the Gestapo save each others' lives.
After a long time when the colonel said nothing Hans asked, “And what is the bad news?” The colonel smiled slightly with an expression of complex appreciation. “Private Rickmers, you are a credit to the German Army. You know how to smile at death.” The colonel continued, “All letters to German soldiers are read. Your girl friend should not have signed her name as ‘Ruth Cohen’. “I lied about my age so I could serve in the...