Daniels Story – Carol Matas

“Just imagine if we all got together and turned against the Nazis. Why can’t people realize that this system only prolongs our suffering? We are a forced-labor camp. But in the end we will all still die—and in the meantime we will have helped the Germans. Look at all the uniforms and equipment we are making for the German war mach- ine.” And then IJ heard Erika’s voice. I couldn’t believe that she would speak up in this group of strangers. “But maybe if we can hold out long enough, the war will end before they have a chance to kill us.”

At that everyone fell silent for a moment, because Erika had expressed the central principle that kept the ghetto going, kept us all in that struggle when it would have been easier to give up. That principle was hope. “Hope,” Rosa said angrily. “Hope is our enemy. We should give up hope, grab their guns, fight, and die proudly.” “Only a person who is full of hope could say such a thing,” I said softly.

She turned her head and looked at me. Looked me right in the eye. Again I could feel my face burning. Then she winked at me and said, “I suppose we all hope for certain things, Daniel, but I don’t think you should admit what it is you hope for.” Everyone in the room burst out laughing at that.

Was it her mission in life to embarrass me? And yet I’d gladly let her do it over and over as long as she was noticing me. It was moments like that which made you want to stay alive. At any cost. oments that made you want to stay alive—like Me: one in this next picture. Erika is sitting with the orchestra, playing her violin. Mother, Father, and I were in the audience, of course, as were Friedrich and Rosa.

Rosa and I sat next to each other.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written-permission of the publisher. For information regarding permission, write to Scholastic Inc., Attention: Permissions Department, 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. ISBN-13: 978-0-590-46588-5 ISBN-10: 0-590-46588-0 Produced by Daniel Weiss Associates, Inc. 33 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011 Copyright © 1993 by Carol Matas. Cover art copyright © 1993 by Daniel Weiss Associates, Inc.

Cover painting by Paul Henry, based in part on a photograph by Mendel Grossman All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Inc. SCHOLASTIC and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. 2221-20 16 17 18 19/0 Printed in the U.S.A. 23 First Scholastic printing, April 1993 This book is dedicated to children everywhere in the hope that they will live in a world of peace and love, and to the memory of the children who found neither. Contents Acknowledgments Vii Part One Pictures of Frankfurt 1 Part Two Pictures of Lodz 37 PartThree Pictures of Auschwitz 79 Part Four Pictures of Buchenwald 105 Chronology 132 Glossary 133 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2023 https ://archive.org/details/danielsstoryO000caro ~ Acknowledgments Heartfelt thanks to: Cassandre Aras, Donna Bab- cock, Rabbi Henry Balser, Amy Berkower, Per Brask, Rebecca Brask, Susan Kitzen, Nathan and Janeen Kobrinsky, Fran Lebowitz, Saari Matas, Sybil Milton, Susan W.

Morgenstein, Morri Mos- tow, Perry Nodelman, Shirly Pinsky, Angela Reimer, Kate Waters, Dan Weiss, Alexandra Zap- ruder, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Berlin @ GERMANY H 3 j 5 6 Auschwitz @ Frankfurt Nuremburg Prague 2 CZECHOSLOVAKIA Dachau Cc eo Vienna Munich e Budapest HUNGARY YUGOSLAVIA Mediterranean Sea EUROPE 1938-1939 @ Important Cities a Concentration Camps 1933-1945 Daniel’s Journey PART ONE PICTURES OF FRANKFURT : — ‘ay : 2 Sores: 4 ame Boreas . = ay hat has happened to me?

I feel just like I did \ \ when I was around ten years old and I got hit by a soccer ball right between the eyes and I wandered around the field disoriented, not knowing who I was, where I was, where I should be going. I feel like that now—stunned and confused. Who am I?

Where am I going? This much I know. My name is Daniel. I am four- teen. And I am Jewish.

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