Broken Beginnings: Chapter Thirty Four (Final Revisions)

Chapter Thirty Four:





Thursday March.09.1939





Today Naomi and I celebrate our tenth birthday, but there isn’t really much to celebrate, with Father gone, and so little food. Ima has gone to get our rations, and she is going to try to make the day special, but it’s more for Naomi than myself, I am the one who understands, Nadia does not, not the way I do, but she knows something is different. How can she not, Father is gone, and the sadness is felt in the air, not only in our house, but in many other houses. We are no longer safe, simply because we are Jews.





Why does everyone have such a strong hatred towards Jews, towards anyone who is different? I have asked myself this question many times.







I’m trying to be strong but it is not easy. I want Father to be here to celebrate our birthday, I want a party with friends, but more than anything I just want life to be normal. I do not want to have to worry about Nazi’s, the Gestapo, or whether or not Father is dead or not. I do not want Ima to have to weight in long lines, simply to get food.





I do not want others to have to worry about their loved ones who may be a little different, who may learn different, walk differently or talk differently, to fear for their loved ones the way I fear for my twin. I know what the Nazi’s can do to her, and that scares me, I do not want to loose my sister, I need her, just as she needs me. But I can not wish…