House of Glass by Hadley Freeman

Author:Hadley Freeman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2020-01-22T17:00:00+00:00

Not long after Maurice’s murder, his sister Rose, Sara’s beloved almost sister, was on a bus, also trying to cross the demarcation line. Her husband, Herman Brenner, had managed to get to the United States in June 1941, and the plan was that Rose would join him once he had sorted out a place for them to live. Dr Brenner found a lovely home for them in Queens, not too far from Sara and Bill, much to Sara’s ecstatic delight. But by the time Rose set out from Paris it was too late. America had entered the war and it was no longer possible to get visas. As she couldn’t get to America from France, she decided to take a bus to Switzerland and somehow get to the United States from there. She hoped that the border police would be too busy to check everyone’s passports, because all she had left to cling to were impossible odds. The bus stopped at the border and when the Vichy police got on and walked down the aisle towards her Rose quickly scribbled on a postcard, gave it to the person sitting next to her and asked them to send it. No one knew what happened to Rose until Sara finally received the postcard years later, after it had been held up during the war. It was addressed to her in America and it read simply, ‘They are coming for me. I love you. Goodbye.’ She was killed in Auschwitz. When Sara finally received that postcard after the war, years after Rose sent it, she screamed and collapsed in her hallway, watched by her toddler son Ronald, my father.

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