For Freedom by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Author:Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780307433381
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2009-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

I sang, I sang, I sang. Madame Marcelle took me different places, to Bayeux and Saint-Lô. We went to concerts, we went in search of music and costumes; sometimes she took me to other instructors. The buses almost never ran on time. If we got home late at night, I slept on her sofa instead of waking my parents. They never worried when I was with Madame Marcelle.

In July the Nazis began to round up all the Jews in France. I did not know any Jews in Cherbourg; I did not see anyone disappear. But one of my uncles in Paris wrote that his neighbors had been taken. He had seen them herded into the street, marched along like sheep under the threat of German guns. My uncle had tried to intervene. “But what could I do?” he wrote. “A German soldier grabbed my arm and pushed me aside, and I knew it was a fight I could not win.”

My uncle had only one arm. He had lost the other in the Great War. I knew the soldier could have shot my uncle as easily as he had pushed him aside. But I hated to think of my uncle backing down, being afraid. “My neighbors were good people,” he wrote. “They were taken away on a train, in cattle cars, no one knows where.”

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