Nowhere to Hide by Paul Kelly

Author:Paul Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, fiction, paul kelly, love, hide, secret, nowhere to hide
ISBN: 9781781661970
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2012-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

The following morning there was a terrific noise just outside our house and several people were gathering together, but what surprised me most was the number of uniformed policemen who were there; obviously Gestapo; the type with the swastika on their arms. Someone banged on our door and when I went see who was there, I was pushed back inside as the door was forced open. Isaac came rushing through from the bedroom to see what all the shouting was about and the same policeman who pushed me into the house, screamed at him to stay back. The children were alarmed and followed Isaac but they too had to stay back as they were ordered.

“You bloody Jews had better get outside” came the voice from the policeman, “All of you. OUTSIDE . . .”

I was terrified and even although I was in my dressing gown I did as I was told and Isaac and the children followed, but what was the greatest surprised to all of us as we stood outside our front door, Herman was standing with the policemen and he sneered at me as I looked at him in awe. It was in that moment that I realized that my cousin had overheard the conversation between Adolf Smythe and myself about the possible journey to Britain. Isaac went to punch him but I held him back. I knew the damage was already done and any sort of abuse would only make matters worse, but I could not understand how or why Herman could do what he did to us, as he himself was a Jew . . . or so we thought, but he spat on the ground and denounced us as traitors in front of everyone in that crowd. He had been a Judas to every Jew who lived in that day and time, but for reasons of his own, which I thought to be cowardice as he was afraid of his fate if he denounced Adolf Hitler, his very fear had made him appear to be a strong enemy. I hoped he did not expect the Iron Cross from Hitler for his action, because in my heart, I could have told him of his fate . . .if he would have listened, but sadly, I knew that Herman had gone past that stage of repentance. He was alive and he was going to remain that way and to hell with anyone who would dare to contradict him.

The Gestapo marched us away, without clothes or anything else and I could hear Betsy barking loudly in the background. We looked back at our humble little home knowing that we had seen the last of it and in our hearts we knew that any journey to Great Britain was a dream that would never come true. The dream was real but the reality was imprisonment. . . and Betsy continued to bark.

I gathered the children round about me with Maria crying and her brothers trying to console her.

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