Amid the pink flowers of a dittany-covered hillside, "the blossoming love bed of Zeus and Europa," they learn how their kind host lost his only child, a girl of fifteen, to the Germans during World War II. Similarly, Tiberghien and her husband, just passing through a village in Crete, are taken in by an amiable Greek guide. Walders's story unfolds through one of the few survivors, whom she serendipitously meets in Rhodes. Walders writes how Rhodes, "officially the sunniest place in Europe," holds one of Greece's darkest chapters-that of the Rhodian Jews who did not survive the Nazi roundups and deportations. One has to be brave when reading Davi Walders's and Susan Tiberghien's stories.
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