When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann

Author:Ariana Neumann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2020-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

Lotar and Hans must have felt a profound sadness at reading Otto’s first letter from the camp, one that echoed across the years when my father’s sobbing rocked the fence near Bubny nearly half a century later. Those few words Hans could manage in 1990—This is where we said goodbye—allowed me a glimpse of the separation and the sorrow of the months that followed. Yet the full meaning of the words was not clear to me for another twenty-five years.

There was a small rectangle of very thin paper among the others in my father’s box. At 8.5 cm by 6 cm, it is by far the smallest item. The letters CC are inked in red in a black box. On the line below is my father’s name. Three large black digits, 449, are printed above.

This tiny relic was an official transport ticket, the slip of paper that a deported person would hand in to the officials just before boarding the wagon to a camp.

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