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"Alicia" the saddest holocaust survivor story I have ever read...
I have been thinking what a catclysmic event the holocaust must have been in heaven as so many innocent people were torn away from their families in death. Alicia had a happy childhood in Poland until the war began. Her successful and intelligent father was the first to be killed, then one by one her three brothers and her mother were killed. When the war was over Alicia was 14 and was surviving by hiding in bushes in ravines and begging farmers for a job. She would often be paid no more than a piece of bread and if she was lucky some sour milk for her hard work. Her mother had been hiding with her until a soldier raised his gun to shoot Alicia and her mother jumped in front of her and was killed by the bullet intended for her daughter.
I am thinking about heaven with all these people sent to the other side by people who had turned bestial. As far as I can see the Jews were hated for their intelligence and and ability to do well at whatever they tackled. They prospered in both Germany and Poland, and so Hitler was able to call upon the envy in the common German citizen and soldier who would help him to carry out the exterminating of what amounted to 6 million Jews. This book brings home the reality of just what that was like for some of the poor children who survived hollowed eyed with hunger and almost gone mad with grief like Alicia. She describes finding out at 16, after losing all her family, that the one boy she had loved since a child had been killed by a land mine. She went to the graveyard as instructed by the friend who was with him and found his grave. She laid down in the sunken grave, and the snow fell over her as she drifted into kind of a limbo unable to get up. The friend realized she had not come back and went back to the graveyard to find her. She was covered in snow and seemingly unconscious and would have died had he not dragged her home.
How sad her people in heaven must have been to see her so close to death, including the boy she loved. I do not believe we die and murderers and victims will be together again on some other plane, perhaps not very long at a time. But the killers will have to realize that they must make amends for what they have done or suffer hell's fire and damnation forever. They were thinking only of the present, not of eternity when on earth committing these crimes. Think of how long a mass killer like Hitler will have to burn.
Stories of the holocaust really get to me. If you ever get a chance, read "Alicia" by Alicia Appleman-Jurman. It is written by a natural born writer. Her genius is in all the details that make you feel the pain experienced by the orphaned children. And you will not want to see events like this happening ever again. I think such books help prevent such bad things from happening just by educating people, by calling forth the better person in them. By making people feel as I did what the author went through. She was so brave and helped other people to survive, too. She must have made her family in heaven very proud.
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This is one I would enjoy reading. I'll have to see if it's in our library.
Lori
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I know I would enjoy reading this. I'd be crying throughout the story though. I will look for it.
You have me thinking about starting a rough outline of my story as a nurse. I find that the more I think about it the more memories surface from the beginning which is interesting. It seems to preoccupy my thoughts lately.
Have a great day Gerry,
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This looks good, Gerry... I might have to pick up a copy.
xo
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5/5/08 11:22 AM
Lisa