MULTIPLE CHOICE

After everyone my father:
     a) loved
     b) left behind
was:
     a) gassed
         at: i)  Belzec
             ii) Chelmno
             iii)Sobibor
             iv) Treblinka
             v)  Auschwitz
or: 
     b) shot 
         i) in their beds
         ii) in the street
         iii) at worship
         iv) in a hiding place betrayed by:
              1) a Polish peasant
              2) another Jew
              3) blind bad luck
or:
    c) died of typhus
          in: one of (a) above
or: e)died in the boxcar
      on the way to one of (a) above

or: __________________ / none of the above —

he never said a word about them.

He carried them all to his grave
as if believing that
closing his fists on their lives without letting a drop:

(a) spill out or
     (b) ooze between his fingers
was
     (c) the only way to keep
         them his.

From The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild