The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Survival Novel Based on a True Story

by Limor Regev

I regret that we did not know then to treasure every moment together – I breathe in the smells, concentrate on the sights, and the tastes that will never come back. If only we had heeded the few voices that tried to make us see the impending danger and warned us, crying out to us to flee...

Only a few months before we were two young friends with large loving families, friends, and plans for the future. We had a warm bed, and we never knew hunger. From now on, we were two numbers. No identity, no sense of belonging, no family.

The war had taken my grandmother, my grandfather, my little cousins, uncles and aunts… …my little brother …and my father And it had taken my belief in man and in God. It had stripped me of my childhood innocence. I had been troubled that it also had taken my ability to feel.