Escape by Barbie Probert-Wright

Author:Barbie Probert-Wright
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473573673
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2019-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

12

Back on the Road

We walked on, numb and bewildered, to Wiedersdorf. What else could we do? We couldn’t go back. We had been walking for two weeks and although, as the crow flies, we had only covered about seventy miles, the circuitous route we followed more than doubled that, and had taken us through rough and dangerous terrain. Through our many frightening experiences, what had kept us going was the thought of being reunited with our mother. It had sustained us through the blackest times and had made the final couple of days, as we neared our goal, a journey of joyful expectation.

We were desolate. I don’t have the words to describe the depth of our misery. For once, Eva could not conceal from me that she was devastated. She wrote in her diary:

Nothing worse could have happened to us. All this for nothing. It was just like somebody was sticking a knife in my heart. The whole way, and now nothing. It couldn’t be true. Mutti couldn’t have gone without us. I just could not believe it. We cried and cried and cried.

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