Paralysed with fear

Beyond All Odds

Paralysed with fear, I watched as my livelihood was fading away. You could hear and see the glass shatter like the pieces of my heart. They stormed into my shop. My home. Smashing everything in their path.

A sea of dark green surrounded me, I could only hope and pray that they would not find my beautiful daughter and lovely wife, hidden in the basement.

Just as that thought crossed my mind they appeared sobbing, hysterically behind me, I could literally smell their fear.

Within a split second the Nazis hands were around them, dragging them kicking and screaming. I summoned all the strength within me and grabbed my daughter free. Screaming at her to run. Run as fast as she could.

A single tear drop fell from her eye, as she turned and ran. Ran for her life.

They dragged me and my wife to a train. A train full of others, others like us. As my wife stopped crying she tried to look around for our daughter, seeing if she had been captured. There was no sign of her anywhere.

As my wife was looking, one of the Nazi soldiers dropped a metal wrench. I acted as quick as I could and grabbed it. There was not a single soldier in sight. I whispered quietly to my wife and said we are free, hold my hand. Follow me.

I stomped hard and felt the floorboards shatter beneath my feet. I as I turned I saw the Nazi soldier grab my wife’s arm, she said to me run find our daughter and I love you. I lowered myself through the floorboards, and laid flat on the track. When the train passed I got up, and ran to where i last saw my daughter, hoping she would be there.

My body froze, dead bodies everywhere surrounding me, I shouted out for my beautiful daughter Ingrid, there was no answer, I shouted again but this time I heard a faint noise of which sounded familiarly like daddy. My mind must have been playing games with me, but it wasn’t. It was really her, I saw a small figure in the distance, and it gradually came closer and closer.

I cried with joy, she ran into my arms. I squeezed her as tight as I could and told her that I loved her and that we would never part again.