Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: letter arrives asking him to come to aid of friend, Fact2: lad attempts to take life, Fact3: police accuse him of complicity in assassination of high-ranking party official, Fact4: criminal charge places Emmanuel beyond help of British embassy, Fact5: Emmanuel While watches as fellow prisoners are tortured and led off to execution incarcerated
Output (English): Set in 1938, Isaac Emmanuel has retired from a Jewish welfare agency in Doomington, England, and is looking for something to do with his time. A letter arrives asking him to come to the aid of a friend who is caring for three German boys who are refugees from Nazi Germany. One of the three, a Jewish boy named Bruno Rosenheim, is very despondent over the recent death of his father and the disappearance of his mother. He waits to get a letter from her, but the letter never arrives. Mr. Emmanuel, a British citizen who himself is a former refugee from Russia, sympathises with the young man. After the lad attempts to take his life, Mr. Emmanuel promises to travel to Germany to find out what he can about Brunos mother. Once he arrives in Berlin, Emmanuel takes lodging at a boardinghouse. He inquires of those around him, not realising how unusual and potentially dangerous it is to do so. Everyone he meets is too scared to give him information. The police and even refugee organisations are also unhelpful. Late one night the Gestapo arrive and take Mr. Emmanuel from his bed to a prison for questioning. The initial line of questioning is of being a spy and communist sympathiser. Mr. Emmanuel believes that his British citizenship will provide some measure of protection, but the police then accuse him of complicity in the assassination of a highranking party official, and the criminal charge places Mr. Emmanuel beyond the help of the British embassy. While incarcerated, Mr Emmanuel watches as fellow prisoners are tortured and led off to execution. Elsie Silver, a halfJewish nightclub singer and the toast of Berlin society, recognises Emmanuel from England, where she grew up. She tries to intervene, but gets nowhere. She convinces her socialclimbing Nazi protector to assist, and Emmanuel is released, with twelve hours to leave Germany. Instead of leaving the country, he continues to search for Brunos mother. He eventually finds her, but she is now married to a prominent Nazi and denies that she is Jewish or that she has a son. Sadly, Mr Emmanuel returns to Britain and tells Bruno that his mother is dead.