Inge Auerbacher by I Am a Star--Child of the Holocaust

Author:I Am a Star--Child of the Holocaust
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Kippenheim, Concentration Camps, Judaism, Jews, Terezín (Czechoslovakia : Concentration Camp), Kippenheim (Germany), Holocaust, General, Religion, Germany, Jewish (1939-1945), Juvenile Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Narratives, Juvenile Literature, Biography, History
ISBN: 9780671666439
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1986-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

To this planet of shadow and despair,

An angel came to give help and care.

One hand was clutched by her little son,

She wanted to mother everyone.

Through time she moved on unseen wings,

Bearing food and other needed things.

This stranger reached out with heart and hands,

Asking no thanks, or making demands.

Both would never leave the abyss,

Or be touched again by life’s kiss.

I search my heart for an answer, Why, why?

Where was justice, why their sentence to die?

Hundreds of people were moving hopelessly in this dark, airless, hot area. They stumbled over the covered dead bodies and got lost in the mass of new arrivals. Mrs. Rinder had arrived earlier in Terezin with her husband and young son Tommy. This good lady, whom we had never met before, gave me a mattress by dividing her son’s mattress in half. Mr. Rinder was fortunate to work in one of the community kitchens and therefore was able to share some extra food with us at times. A deep friendship developed between us until the fall of 1944, when the entire Rinder family was deported to Auschwitz and death in the gas chambers.

Under these terrible conditions, some people lost the will to live and took their own lives. A few days after our arrival in Terezin, my father saw a man starting to jump from an attic opening of the Dresden Fortress. Papa managed to grab the man’s legs and pull him back inside. To his amazement, it was an old man from our transport. Papa spoke encouraging words to him and made him promise not to repeat this act. The next morning a broken body lay lifeless in the fortress courtyard. Papa identified him. It was the same old man.

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