Central Commercial High School - Hour Glass Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Search or Tomorrvw KflWOlfOCh Ukrame the 21st of October ln the year of 1943 was a place for tears and partmg from frlends and relatlves Mom was busy w1th her housework and my stster and I l1ke children were playlng wlthout any worrles All at once there was H0156 about us Dad came home from work earller than usual and brought bad news We were to leave our house lmmedlately and go away because our home was near the frontler and l1v1ng there would put us 1n great danger My slster and I drd not understand why we had to leave our home but we were happy to be able to take a rlde Not knowmg where and why d1d not mterest us but mom and dad were worrled Packmg was started the house became dlsorderly and everybody was 1n a rush After some trme slxteen persons were loaded 1nto a truck and we were on our way for two weeks not stoppmg very often and always at mght How long th1s rlde would last we d1d not know When we asked our parents when lt would end they would tell us soon Where we would end up nobody knew One day we stopped ln a llttle town far away from our home We were quartered m a b1g hall of a school The hall was cold and filled with hay Eight famllles 0CCUp1Cd th1s hall Everyone of us took a corner 1n the hall some hay and th1s was our home for the tlme bemg We drd not know how long we would lrve th1s way but by now we understood that we had lost our home On the 14th of November we were agam traveling th1s tlme by tram for the followlng two weeks On the 29th of November durmg the mght we were awakened by a sudden halt of our tram Everybody rushed to see the reason for th1s stop and then we heard some nolse from the outslde We were ordered off the tram by the manager of a camp at whnch the tram had stopped On the several stops we had made before other people had told us that rf we got 1nto Germany our famllxes would be broken up Now when the manager told us that the women and chlldren should go 1ns1de the camp and the men should stay ln the tram we felt the rumors we had heard were cor rect Nobody had thought that we would get lnto Germany but we were rrght ln the heart of Germany We had been told to leave town for a short tlme untxl the danger of the frontler was over but everythmg turned out driferently We were brought 1nto Germany and quartered m a camp The camp was a Catholrc SISICTS Kloster Before the war th1s was a school for tallorlng They gave us one room It was tremendous In th1s room elghty people had to settle down chlldren women and men together Only now everybody understood clearly what lt meant to have lost hls motherland Llfe 1n the camp was the same day ln and day out Dad worked far away from the camp and came home only on Sundays Mom worked here ln the Kloster and my slster and I went to the Kmdergarten here at the camp We saw Mom only at lunch and 1n the evemng when she came home from work tlred dlrty and hungry Then we would go together to supper After supper everybody drd what he wanted to do untll 10 o clock when the llghts had to be turned off We were never able to sleep long because durmg the mght we 26 w 9 9 1 1 a s a - 9 ' 9 ' 9 9 9 , . , . ' 44 as v - 9 ' 9 , . 9 9 a , . 3 s , - ' 7 , . . . , . . . , . s 9 1 ' 1 , . , . 9 9 s 9 - s - . . , . 9 I . .