Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. ("Hanka")

After he had achieved success as a writer in New York Singer and his wife began spending time during the winters with the Jewish community in Miami. In the foreword to his personally selected volume of his finest short stories he describes the two aforementioned writers as the greatest masters of the short story form. " which became a classical reference in the discussions about the legitimacy of the comparison of animal exploitation with the holocaust.

Isaac BaIsaac Bashevis Singervis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 21 1902 – July 24 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American author. National Book Awards one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories. The Polish form of his birth name was Izaak Zynger and he used his mother's first name in an initial pseudonym Izaak Baszewis which he later expanded to the form under which he is now known.