1 | At that point, the imprisoned moon lost what little light it had left: it became a black, shapeless rock. | |
2 | His resolve was even more hardened to escape from captivity although it was impossible. | |
3 | From the age of two, a friend of mine went with his mother every month to the Abu Salim prison, hoping in vain to see his father, who was imprisoned there. | |
4 | There may be some among us who can imagine 20 days in captivity; perhaps a fraction of those can imagine a full year deprived of liberty and most human contact. | |
5 | Born in Romania in 1930, Librescu was imprisoned in a labor camp during World War II and then sent to a ghetto with his family and thousands of other Jews. |