Academy of the Dead by Christopher Wright

Author:Christopher Wright
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: detective, prague, music, manuscripts, jews persecutions, holocaust 1940s, music and adventure, detective action adventure

Dearest Mama,

I want to tell you about a girl who is my new friend here at Terezín. She came here four days ago, but she is still not speaking a word to anyone, not even to me. When they brought her to the camp, the guards told us her name is Hana Eisler and she attends the Helios Music Academy in Prague. I wonder if anyone at the Academy knows she is here. Perhaps you should tell them.

Yesterday Hana started to play one of the camp violins for us. She is so good that the guards have asked her to play some German solo pieces to them tomorrow. The music she plays is rather slow and sad, but she is very talented. We are all listening to Hana now, and soon we will go to bed. Hana shares a bunk with me.

It is now the next day. The saddest thing happened this morning, Mama. I woke to find Hana crying in our little bunk. She was clutching her stomach and suddenly blood came from her mouth. I called the guard and he said he was taking Hana to the camp hospital. But first he had to take Hana for a shower because she had soiled herself in the night. After breakfast the guard told us Hana was dead. I feel so terribly miserable. The camp violin that Hana played is being given to an old man. He is a good player, but not nearly as good as Hana. I do not think I ever want to hear the violin being played again.

Tomorrow some of us are being taken on a train journey all the way to a camp in Poland. I think the guards say it is called Auswich. We do not know what awaits us there.

All the love in the world, Your dearest Emilie.

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