One day, someone knocked at the Mayer's door.
Who is it this late at night? Julia wondered.
She went to open it. Two strangers - a young man and lady, looking extremely undernourished - were at the door.
"Who are you?" Julia asked, wondering why two random people would bring themselves here at this time.
"It's me, Max. Don't you remember me? Oma and Opa said to come me here."
Max ran into his mother's arms. He didn't let go for minutes.
When they were finished, Julia gestured for him to come inside. "Who is your freind?" She asked.
"I'm Marya." She answered, waiting to be invited in.
"Come in." Julia said.
Max waited for his mother to show him and Marya the way.
Vadi was there, and a teenage boy and girl. No Lena.
Peter got up to hug his son.
"Max, don't you remember your sister?" Peter asked.
That was Max recognised Lena.
That was when the awkward silence began. It was so good to be together again, yet so strange.
Everyone had so much to tell. So much to hear.
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"Max, where have you been? And why are you and Marya so thin?"
"Auschwitz." Max responded.
"Tell us Max,"
So Max did.
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Even after they were all reunited, they couldn't change the fact that six years of their life, were wiped out by a man, who's name is no longer worth mentioning.
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Staying In The Shadows
Historical FictionThis story is about Lena and her family as they struggle in Germany during the Holocaust. When the Nazis come to search Lena's hometown of Kiel, her hand her brother Max are forced to leave the city But then Max is shoved into a lorry by the SS, and...
