Don’t choose less, we don’t want to go on, father said
It’s like a reasonable thing, but it’s not the root, not the mother.
In that case, I’ll be taken away and seen as saying by my father.
Let them grow up in that environment, mother said
That’s enough. I don’t want to talk about it anymore, said my father
The conversation may be over, because Bruno is falling asleep because there is no more talk from his parents in his father’s office.
A few days later, Bruno found Maria in his bedroom, taking things from the closet and putting them into four crates. Even what he hid behind the closet was turned upside down. This is the story.
Chapter 12 himl thinks about the answer
I know himl replied that before we came here, my mother, father and brother Joseph lived in a shop-side apartment, and my father did some watch work in this shop. Every morning at seven o’clock, my family had breakfast together, and then we went to my father to repair the watch in the shop and make a new watch. My father gave me a beautiful watch, but now it has no golden surface. At that time, I wound it up every night and it always told me the time.
Where did it go later? Bruno asked
They took it, himl said.
who
Of course, it’s soldier himl. It seems that this is the most natural thing in the world.
Then one day everything changed, he went on to say that one day I put it home and saw my mother making armbands for us on a special piece of cloth and drawing a star pattern on the surface, just like this, saying that his fingers drew a figure in the mud.
Hexagonal star
Every time we leave home, she will let us wear this armband.
My father also brought a black and white pattern with a bright red background, which Bruno said was beautiful in his work. He drew another pattern with his finger on the mud over the wire.
Nazi swastika
Yes, but the two signs are completely different, aren’t they? himl said
Well, different people gave me such an armband, Bruno said
But no one asked me to wear such an armband, himl said
Anyway, Bruno said, I think I support them, but I still don’t know which is more, you or my father.
Himl shook his head and went on with his story. He seldom thought about these things, because whenever he recalled those days in the watch shop, he would be sad.
We wore armbands for several months, he said, and then things changed one day. When I got home, my mother told me that I couldn’t live in our house anymore.
It happened to me, too. Bruno shouted excitedly and was glad that he was not the only boy who was forced to leave home. Did you know that the Fuhrer came to my house for dinner? Then we moved here. I hate it here, he added. Has he been to your house to do such a thing?
No, but they told us that we couldn’t live at home anymore and had to move to another place in Krakow, where the soldiers built a wall. My mother, father and brother and I had to live in one room.
Your family Bruno asked for a room.
It’s not just our family, himl said. There’s another family. Their mother and father often fight. They are taller than me. Even if I didn’t do anything, he would hit me.
How can you live in the same room like this? Bruno said it’s impossible to shake your head
Himl, our man, said that he nodded, and there were eleven people in all.
Bruno wanted to open his mouth to refute himl. He couldn’t believe that eleven people could live in the same room, but when the words came to his lips, he changed his mind.
We lived there for a few months. himl went on to say that we all lived in the same room. There was a small window in the room, but I didn’t look out the window because it was a wall. I hated that wall because it wasn’t like this in our real home. This district is a poor city. It is always noisy and people can’t sleep. I also hate Luca, the big boy who always hits me, that is, I didn’t do anything wrong.
Gretel also hit me when Bruno said she was my sister, and he added that she was a hopeless person. Soon I will grow taller and stronger than her, and then she will know who it is.
Then the next day, the soldiers came to himl with a big truck. Then they said that everyone seemed to be interested in Gretel. Everyone had to leave the house. Some people didn’t want to leave, so they hid everywhere. But I think the soldiers finally caught them. Then the truck took us to a train, and the train hesitated and bit his lip. Bruno felt as if he was going to cry, but he didn’t know anything.
That train was terrible. himl said that it was so crowded that people could hardly breathe. The smell was disgusting.
That’s because you are all crowded in a train. Bruno said that he remembered that when he left Berlin that day, he saw two trains on the train. When we came here, there was a train parked on the other side of the platform, but no one seemed to see that it was the one we took. You should also take that one.
I don’t think they will allow himl to shake his head. We can’t leave our car.
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