The Underground Reporters by Kathy Kacer

Author:Kathy Kacer [Kacer, Kathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JNF025090
ISBN: 9780237531591
Google: dHoKvQIQbwsC
Amazon: 0237531593
Publisher: Evans Brothers
Published: 2006-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Every edition of Klepy included a sign-off sheet asking readers to sign their name and comment on that edition. On this sheet John writes, “First class. The newspaper gets better and better. Soon there will be one hundred pages, which is good.”

Then he passed the newspaper to his parents so that they could have their chance to read it, and to record their comments. They laughed when they read the article about the haircut.

“I never knew you were such a wonderful writer,” his mother said, proudly.

“How can I walk down the street after what you have written about me?” joked his father.

Any excuse to laugh felt good these days. Laughter was a way to forget the cruelties of the war, a way to feel that life was normal. Nothing else about life in Budejovice felt normal anymore.

It was becoming increasingly dangerous to walk in the streets, and Jewish people were forbidden to enter certain parts of town at all. Arrests were becoming more commonplace, as Jews suddenly vanished off the streets. Where did these people go, John wondered, as his parents whispered about the disappearance of this acquaintance, or that colleague.

“Will we be arrested?” John asked his parents. “Or crammed in some little shack?” he added, remembering what he had heard about the ghettos in Poland and Germany.

“No,” his father said quickly. “We’re safe here in our home.”

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