A young prisoner who was caught after escaping Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mendel Bauer comes to Lale and asks if he can help him avoid execution. Accordingly, Lale arranges for Mendel to be put on a transport leaving the camp that night, thereby allowing him to slip away before the Nazis come to execute him the following morning.
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Chapter 16
...has to run back to his room to ask the man his name, which is Mendel Bauer . Returning to Bella, he relays Mendel’s name and he arranges for him to slip...
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