The day when everything changed for her wasn’t the day when the bombs fell, or the day when the queen disappeared, or the day when the books were taken off the shelves. It wasn’t the day when Jews were no longer allowed to sit on park benches or enter public buildings or the day when they had to wear yellow stars on their coats. In her life, today was the day that was unlike any other, when one world ended and another began, when she held her mother’s hand, when her father was crying, when she didn’t care if she would be beautiful or not, when she just wanted to grow up, that’s all she would
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