Eva's Story (2012)
“REUNION I jumped up shouting ‘Pappy!’ He looked at me with such amazement and delight that we wanted both to laugh and cry at the same time. We ran to the barbed wire that separated us. We could almost touch each other but we did not dare to because it was far too dangerous. We were intoxicated with excitement at the coincidence of seeing one another. In that vast camp we knew it was a miracle for both of us to be in that particular place at the same time. God had brought us together for only a... little while but for ever after I felt I had not been deserted. I kept remembering how it was that suddenly, out of the blue, Pappy was there again. It strengthened my faith and my determination to pull through.
The sight of my dashing, attractive father dressed in striped prison uniform with a beret covering his shaven head was terrible. I knew how fastidious he was about his appearance. He had always had his suits made for him in London’s Savile Row. I hated this humiliation and wanted to cry inside, but he was beaming at me and whispered across the barriers, ‘Evertje, Liebling.MoreLess
The sight of my dashing, attractive father dressed in striped prison uniform with a beret covering his shaven head was terrible. I knew how fastidious he was about his appearance. He had always had his suits made for him in London’s Savile Row. I hated this humiliation and wanted to cry inside, but he was beaming at me and whispered across the barriers, ‘Evertje, Liebling.MoreLess
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