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The children were of
course, not allowed,

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of course to go to school.

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And yet they did try--

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many, especially
in Theresienstadt,

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they tried to educate the kids.

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It was exceedingly dangerous.

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They had to post a
look out and usually

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were hiding in a hayloft
or something like that,

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so that they could learn
in the midst of this.

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Orders of the day.

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After the bellowed call
to rise, the cold dribble

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wash up before making our cots.

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After chores were dealt
out as we crumbled bread

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into sour cabbage,
then fell in line

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to be totted up numbers
matched to fate.

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There was a moment before
the scramble to class,

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lookouts posted below
the attic hutch.

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No more than a flicker, a
bright, brutal remembering,

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when we became ourselves again.

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Cow licked and plaited,
flush with pocketed apples

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or tucked away sweets.

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We were not hunched in rain
being counted or shivering

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under rafters
trying to keep pace

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with our dreams of
the outside world.

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We were merely children, and
that brief forgetting, that

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raging stupor we tried to
hold quiet in our heads,

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as if in a brimming
goblet, until the day

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lurched upright
barking its orders.

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That moment was easily the most
blissful or shattering instant

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we would live through on Earth.

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This hard and sullen earth we
no longer recognized, but would

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sooner than later
commit our souls

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to when at last
our bodies crumbled

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into their final resting place.

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