Thief of Glory
“During those weeks, one day to the next had the numbing effect of making everything seem unchanged. The siren wailed each morning, and families stumbled to the streets for roll call. Mothers tried to comfort children who cried from hunger, and women and girls over sixteen carried out the duties of camp routine. Rice and stale bread were served at every lunch and dinner. Sirens wailed for end-of-day roll call and then wailed again to impose curfew.In their lives before camp, my sisters had lived... like beautiful china dolls, pampered and exhibited accordingly by Elsbeth. Now their legs were streaked with dirt, their knees scabbed, and they wore tattered dresses far too small for their growing bodies. They knelt in dirt to search for snails and squealed in delight on the rare occasion they found a frog for our boiling pot. Even so, when Elsbeth could, she insisted on brushing their hair every morning and lectured them if they allowed their faces to be dirty.Georgie was unable to find his own group of boys as friends and made sure that when I was in sight, he disappeared.MoreLess
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