A Quiet Genocide: The Untold Holocaust of Disabled Children in WW2 Germany (WWII Historical Fiction) by Bryant Glenn

Author:Bryant, Glenn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amsterdam Publishers
Published: 2018-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

‘Professor Zielinski?’ the girl who spoke too much said again.

The professor looked up. Six young people – clean and innocent – were staring at him. They looked concerned. It was sunny and warm and there was no danger in the room.

‘Miles away! My apologies,’ he said, hoping his students would not see the uncertainty and fear in his features.

Five didn’t. Jozef did.

‘That is all today. Good seminar. Well done everyone. Jozef, do you have a moment?’

‘Of course, professor.’

‘Jozef, I’ve thought long and hard about this, but I feel the time is right.’

‘The time is right for what?’ Jozef asked.

‘To show you something,’ said the professor, unbuttoning the cuffs of the sleeves of his shirt. ‘To show you this.’

A tattoo. Strange. Jozef had little experience of tattoos, but this was certainly not how he might have imagined one. He looked closer at it, curious. A small, inky row of numbers, fading on the inside of the professor’s wrist: 82367.

‘I was in Auschwitz.’

‘The concentration camp?’ said Jozef, unsure.

‘Yes. But it was a death camp, Jozef. It was a death camp.’

‘What was it like? How did you survive?’ said Jozef, firing questions at Professor Zielinski like gun shots.

‘Patience, patience,’ said the professor, who believed he had been right to tell his student, but who had not talked about it with anyone but fellow survivors before and even then, he had been guarded about what he had revealed. This felt right. Nearly fifteen years had passed. How many more did he have left – five? Ten? Fifteen maximum.

He unbuttoned the top button of his shirt, loosened his bow tie and looked calmly into Jozef’s eyes. The only other people to have looked at Jozef that intensely were his mother and Michael.

Jozef was listening.

‘Jozef,’ said the professor, lowering his gaze. ‘You must promise, you must absolutely promise, that what is said in this room when only we are present remains in this room. These words are not for the outside world. The outside world is not ready for what I am about to tell you, not yet.’

‘Of course,’ said Jozef. ‘You can trust me. Anyway, I have a secret I want to tell you.’

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