Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz.Lorie Chortyk/UBC Archives It’s March 14, 1939. In a small town called Mistek in north-eastern Moravia, a region of Czechoslovakia, an 11-year-old girl is looking out the bay window of her family’s apartment at Prokop’s delicatessen where her parents frequently shop. Suddenly, a group of German soldiers with fixed bayonets appears, marching around the corner. At first, the girl thinks it must be part of a play, since there are many amateur theatre groups in town. She asks her father what’s going on. Then, as she remembers it, everything goes dark: Her father has put his hands over her...