THANKS TO MY MOTHER

I have just completed a book called

THANKS TO MY MOTHER

by: Schoschana Rabinovici

It is a book that my friend, Sue B.

confiscated from a 4th grade classroom at our school.

It isn't a popular book in the 4th grade.

Evidently children are not interested in

what happened in the 40's to all

while Hitler forces invaded the Jewish communities.

This is a must read book.

Often I say that it is a sad world right now.

That I would not want to raise children in

todays world,

but while reading books such as this I realize

that the things that happened to people in these

times of the 40's was so much worse than anything

we are facing in todays world in our US of A.

This is a true story written by a woman

of her horrors that began when she was 8 years old.

The most touching sentence for me was a one-liner.

The story behind the sentence was

a mother who had smuggled her young son and

dressed him as a girl into the concentration camps

where they were moved.

All day she would work and have this young child hide

under the bunks all day without food or bathroom

until she returned late in the night to give

him a portion of her bread and water ration.

After many months of this the child finally was caught.

The thugs took her son to have him executed.

The other women at the camp tried to keep the young

mother there with them so at least she would be spared.

She jumped on the truck to hold her baby even

as women pulled on her to keep her there.

One friend said to her that she could no longer

save him, save yourself they said.

Her words to the crowds of these women who had

become her friends who begged her to stay,

"IT IS WORTH SACRIFICING MY WHOLE LIFE,

SO THAT MY SON CAN FEEL SAFE AND AT

PEACE FOR HALF AN HOUR."

Wow, all Mothers say they would die for their children

but how many of us would have the courage to die

along with them for a half hour of peace for the child?

Much thought here today on the blog.

Oh and Happy one year birthday, BLOG!