“We must live, and when this is all over, we must work to make the world a better place. And if we die, we will die knowing that it was not our fault, that we did our best, and we can go to our deaths in dignity… I want you both to live…And to remember...You must choose love. Always choose love.”
(from Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas, page 70)
In the book Daniel's Story Daniel's grandfather Opa Samuel (Opa means grandfather in German). Opa Samuel chose love when Oma Rachel was being taken away by the Jewish police to go on the transports to a different terrible place in Lodz for Jews. Opa Samuel chose love because he didn't want to leave his wife (Oma Rachel) because he loved her and didn't want to leave his wife to the dreadful Germans. Opa Samuel knew that the Germans might have done bad things to Oma Rachel, he knew he couldn't stop them, but at least she wouldn't have to feel and be alone. And at least Oma Rachel can have her husband by her side. Opa Samuel basically risked his life for Oma Rachel, he knew the consequences and he died for it, but this shows how he chose love over everything else that was left in his life. This shows how another character in Daniel's story other than Erika who chose love over everything else in the world.
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