Briar Rose Chapter 29 Summary

  • Near Chelmno, Josef and his companions start hearing rumors of an extermination camp. Things are about to get grisly.
  • Eventually the partisans find a van that's dumping the bodies of Jews who have been murdered with poisonous gas.
  • They find a survivor in one of these terrible corpse piles. It's Gemma!
  • Josef administers CPR.
  • When she recovers enough to speak, Gemma tells Josef and the partisans that she can't remember anything about her old life.