Hannah upset Grandpa Will

Hannah made a tattoo on her arm of numbers.... just like those Grandpa Will had on his arm. This upset him greatly, as his own tattoo was the number he was assigned in the concentration camp.

Hannah had taken a ballpoint pen and written a string of numbers on the inside of her own left arm, hard enough to almost break the skin. She had thought that it might please Grandpa Will as much as the new baby had. For a moment, he'd stared at her uncomprehendingly. Then suddenly he'd grabbed at her, screaming in Yiddish Malach ha-mavis over and over, his face gray and horrible.