Letter From a Stranger
“Exhausted from weeping, she felt as though she had no tears left in her. The first pages in her grandmother’s black leather book had truly shocked and stunned her. She had been flabbergasted by what she had read, and was filled with innumerable questions which only Gran could answer.
She could not conceive how her grandmother had managed to endure such enormous pain and loss at so young an age. Or how she had survived what must have befallen her later on. Justine was well versed in history, and knew about the Second World War and the Holocaust. She could now only wonder, and agonizingly so, about Gabriele’s life during those evil times in Nazi Germany. That she had escaped death was surely something of a miracle.
What had the young Gabriele done? Who had helped her? How had she evaded arrest by the Gestapo? Or hadn’t she? Had she been in one of the death camps? And lived. What had happened to Gabriele’s parents? Her great-grandparents? And what about Erika? Had Gran’s little sister survived?
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