The epilogue for Through different Eyes has been posted. The story is related by Mutti Frida, who revisits Ravensbrück for a rededication of the camp memorial in 1975.
I am also proud to tell you that Through different Eyes has made it to the longlist (about 50 books) in the PageTurner 2023 writing awards. There's a way to go yet, but even this is rewarding - as are your continuing votes here on Stories-on-Line.
Thank you.
I looked down at the letter in my hand. It invited me, Frida Schmidt (née Karpinski), to attend the rededication of the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp memorial. I watched, detached, as the letter wobbled, exaggerating my trembling hand.
Seeking the chair, I groped behind me and fell onto the seat.
As a nearly sixteen-year-old, I had run from those gates into the cold spring of 1945. The SS guards inexplicably herded several thousand German nationals from the camp. I’d never returned; nor did I wish to. I knew too well its miasma of suffering, cruelty and evil. The camps had drained the life from my mother through a decade of imprisonment, forced labour and starvation as she struggled to keep me alive.
I dropped the letter on my desk; the memories spread the trembling across my body.
Breathe, Frida, the way Col does.
This brings to an end the stories in the Cold War and before series. It's been quite a journey as these stories mark my debut as a published author. I started writing Through my Eyes. Again. in October 2019 and, I hope, I've learned much since those first tentative steps.
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(Robert Hart)