" Magdalena Huber’s face was not accustomed to smiling much but she waved us to a pair of armchairs beside the unlit woodstove with old-world courtesy. Her manner was that of a headmistress. Which is what I knew she had once been. Her mousy hair was swept up into a thick old-fashioned bun on top of her head, adding to her already exceptional height. Her skin was unusually pink and she was painfully thin, but almost everyone in Germany was painfully thin "

― Kate Furnivall , The Survivors