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Having a club centered around books meant others would likely want to join, and if others joined, their small group wouldn’t have the same intimacy where thoughts and opinions could be discussed without judgment. Especially with Danuta, who had a propensity toward trying to outsmart every person, likely due to both her parents being professors.
The world was full of extraordinary women.
But as they slunk deeper into the alley for a way to escape, they didn’t just leave Maria behind; they also left their childhood, their innocence. It had been sloughed off, a husk which was now too small to ever fit again, leaving them raw and vulnerable in this dangerous new world of war. Whatever happened next, they would never be the same.
“Books are the perfect conduit to convey a message to the world.
added. “This is a story about making the choices you know are right, even when the rest of the world feels confusing and disorienting. It’s knowing who you are and choosing kindness and love; like the Time Traveller did.”
There was no way to stand up for what was right when it came to the Nazis.
Today’s endurance under the occupation. Tomorrow in preparing for the fight for freedom. And the day after tomorrow for the new, free Poland they would live in once more.
“There are many wrongs in this new world,”
she had once entertained the idea of turning toward a career in healing. How far she had fallen from such aspirations.
There was no greater experience in the world than sharing the love of a book, discussing its finer points, and reliving the story all over again.
“Hitler is only a man. The Nazis can be defeated. Poland can be free again.”
Once, this book had not so much as grazed her interest, and now...now it punched into her heart like a sniper’s bullet.
Rows and rows of shelved books, salvaged from beneath Nazi noses and kept safe in the heart of a ruined library that still had one precious gift left to give to the readers of Warsaw. The books were safe.
We cannot let the atrocities and persecution of the Jews slip between the cracks of history. We cannot allow education to be stifled or cultures to be erased or books to be banned. Nor can we let the memory of those brave men and women who fought for freedom and what is right disappear in the turning pages of time.
