28. Rita’s Story “Mother, Father, Grandparents, Uncles, Aunts, Cousins, two sister and two brothers – Bertha, Berl, Ida, and Yankule – did not survive. I miss them and I cry everyday. They are always in my mind and in my heart.” “The next morning we were transported back to Riga where I had left my twin sister. We were so happy to be reunited and from then on, we were always together.” “I got very friendly with one girl and she told me her family name was Hirsch. One of our uncle’s name was Hirsch and was married to our aunt in Timisora, so to our surprise she and her sister were our uncle’s nieces. We were very happy to have found some relatives.” “I can’t forget the Holocaust; to be captured into slavery, to see the Nazi’s around you with loaded rifles; to get pushed five in a row to march hungry, cold, and tired with no future, separated from parents, sisters, and brothers and the rest of the family…nightmares are still with me.”
29. "Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight short, simple words. Yet that was the moment when I parted from my mother.” – Elie Wiesel, Night Retention and Loss of Families “Perhaps I am simply jealous of her greater right to mourn him.” – Ruth Kluger, Still Alive “Liesel remained true to her father. He could not get out, as she explained, because he knew too much. Therefore she could not register for a work transport, although they would have been more likely to take her than me, because she was a couple of years older. She never even tried it; she wanted to remain with him; she was gassed with him. She had absolutely no illusion about her impending death. I would not have sacrificed myself for my mother.” – Ruth Kluger, Still Alive “As for me, I was not thinking about death, but I did not want to be separated from my father. We had already suffered so much, borne so much together; this was not the time to be separated.” – Elie Wiesel, Night
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