The stories in "Out of Chaos "represent brief or elongated moments, fragments of memory and experience, what the great Holocaust writer Ida Fink called a scrap of time. ""In all, the anthology expresses these survivors memories and reactions to a wide range of experiences as they survived in so many European settings, from Holland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland, and France. The writers recall being on the run between different countries, escaping over mountains, hiding and even sometimes forgetting their Jewish identities in convents and rescuers homes and hovels,...