“First of all, Isaac Golding isn’t anonymous. He has a name. There are lists, Peter. The Center has archives.”

“So all that you’ll be doing is looking at lists?”

“I don’t really know.” Rina got up and poured a cup of coffee for herself. “What exactly did Ernesto tell you?”

“That there was a discrepancy between the supposed date of his grandfather’s arrival in Argentina and the actual date he did arrive. Then he told me that he had found an actual Yitzchak Golding, but he had died in the camps. I was thinking that maybe his grandfather just made up the name.”

“Could be, although it doesn’t sound random to me. If Grandpa had been a Nazi who had wanted to pass himself off as a Jew after the war, what better way to present yourself than as a dead man? No one showing up to prove you wrong. Where was Ernesto’s Yitzchak Golding from?”

“I don’t know, but he supposedly died in a Polish camp.” Decker mulled over his thoughts. “I believe he told me a name. I have his entire confession on tape. I’ll replay and tell you the name he told me if you promise not to fink on me.”

“Scout’s honor.”

“The camp wasn’t Auschwitz, that much I remember. If you name some others for me, I may recognize it.”

She furrowed her brow. “Auschwitz was the main camp in Poland. I don’t know all the others by heart. Hold on. Let me get a Jewish encyclopedia.”

Rina was gone for several minutes. She came back holding a big blue tome. “Let’s see…Auschwitz, Betzec, Sobibor, Treblinka—”

“That’s it.”

“Treblinka?”

“Yes, I’m positive.”

“Hold on.” Rina left and came back moments later, holding another blue volume. “In operation from 1941 to 1943. It was designed as a liquidation camp—about 870,000 people exterminated—”

“Good Lord!” Decker couldn’t fathom that many people dying in one geographical spot.

“Auschwitz killed more,” Rina said. “That’s because Auschwitz was around longer. Almost three years longer.”

“What do you mean ‘designed’ as a liquidation camp? Weren’t they all…that?”

“Some of them—like Auschwitz—were officially labeled ‘forced labor’ camps, others were ‘holding centers.’ Both are misnomers because the end results were the same. People were either murdered or died due to starvation, exposure, or disease. According to this article, there are very, very, very few survivors from Treblinka because its specific purpose was to exterminate the Jewish population of Poland.”

“Who was in control of it? The Germans or the Poles?”