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A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova by Arnošt Lustig

" . . . A hundred times courageous, a hundred times good, a thousand times just, a thousand times beautiful," he sang.

A Jewish girl with a zest for life tries to survive after being transported to a concentration camp along with her family. Once she realises that her wish has been made impossible, she kills one of her tormentors and cripples another before she herself is killed along with twenty other men, rich American Jews before the Nazis extracted all their money using false promises of repatriation as bait to convince them to keep signing cheques.