Back In Time 

March 30th 2016 

Dear noodle;

It was one of those nights that I couldn't sleep and remembered the past:

It was a hot summer night when my window was opened for fresh air. I was trying to sleep but I was thinking about the Holocaust and what was going to happen next. I heard some weird sounds that weren't familiar, I looked at my sisters who were sleeping in their bunk beds quietly. It was hard to see in pitch black with blurry eyes. Suddenly the door opened; my mom was looking stressed. I asked her if something was wrong because she had her backpack. Even if I didn't want to hear the answer, I had to face it. "We're leaving". I felt every single second of my life going through my brain. I was lost in my memories. When I came back to reality I had to pack three items; my teddy bear, my diary and a piece of my favourite chocolate bar. We were going to hide inside the Frank family's house. Their daughter was actually my friend but not too close. My teddy bear was keeping me safe, my diary was keeping my secrets and the chocolate was to eat in an emergency case. Why were we leaving? My mom received a letter from the Nazis that told her that she should go to the Auschwitz concentration camp. We couldn't leave her so my father had to decide on hiding with the Frank's. I felt dejected. It was a disappointment for me because all of these years I spent in this beautiful house, were now sliding through my hands. I heard that we had to go to a concentration camp. But we can't go because the conditions there are not good and there is the Typhus disease which is deadly. My thoughts are towards us being liberated in few months. I'm feeling anxious, I'm scared that someone will betray us; Tell the Nazis that we were hiding. If something like that happens to us we will have to leave for the concentration camps. I think we will be hiding for the next three or four months. My mom told me that we were going to hide in an Annex. It's a secret place where you can only reach from the bak of a bookshelf. All of these were happening because of Hitler and his German Workers Party. All the German people thought that everything will be okay when he came to power. But nobody knew what he was doing to Jews, disabled people, homosexuals and asocials.

Now I could sleep, I cleared my mind and felt my eyelids closing.

-idil