The Lily Pond by Annika Thor

Author:Annika Thor [Thor, Annika]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-375-89914-0
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

she gets home that evening, there’s a letter on the table in the hall.

Dearest Stephie,

Thank you for the letter. It gave us great pleasure. And please forgive our delay in answering! We’re working so hard and have such long days, it’s difficult to make time for the most important thing of all: writing to you and Nellie. Mamma had to stop working for the old woman. She works at a factory now, which means she has even farther to walk than before. In the evenings she spends hours standing in line at the special stores where Jews are permitted to shop, where all they sell is rotting vegetables and meat that has gone bad from the regular shops. As for me, I continue to walk back and forth to the Jewish hospital, as Jews are no longer allowed on tram number 40! Life has become more and more unbearable, and everyone who has a way is trying to get out of Vienna. Your friend Evi and her parents left last week. For a very long time they felt safe, what with Evi’s mother being Catholic, but the persecution is now so pervasive that no one escapes. They have gone to live with their relatives in Brazil, traveling via Portugal. We’ve filed another application with the United States consulate, along with your aunt Emilie and her husband. Aunt Emilie has managed to make contact with a distant relation in New Jersey, who has promised to try to help us. Maybe we will have better luck this time. In any case, we have not given up hope and will not as long as we know our girls are there waiting for us. But if we fail, and if we are not able to write very often, you must know that we are thinking of you and Nellie, that we think of you every day, even every hour.

With much love from your papa

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