"The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick is a haunting and powerful novella that explores the horrors of the

Holocaust through the eyes of three women - a mother, her baby, and her teenage niece - as they
struggle to survive in a Nazi concentration camp.

At the heart of the story is a shawl, which the mother uses to protect her baby from the cold and hunger
of the camp. The shawl becomes a symbol of the mother's love and sacrifice, and of the desperation and
brutality of the world they inhabit.

Ozick's writing is spare and powerful, conveying the bleakness and horror of the concentration camp in
vivid detail. She also delves into the psychological toll of the Holocaust, exploring the ways in which the
survivors are haunted by their experiences long after the war is over.