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Cold and hungry, I shivered on the platform.<\/p>\n

Everything had been taken. The silverware from Grandmother Petra, tossed in a bag, was a knife to the heart. All our valuable paintings, ripped from the walls and tossed into a pile, was too much for my husband Jenko. He protested and got a bullet in the head. I held my chin high without weeping.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m alone, except for the hundreds of people waiting to board the train and wondering where we are going.<\/p>\n

I lowered my head and pressed my hand against \u201cThe Star of David,\u201d sewed onto my fraying coat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cold and hungry, I shivered on the platform. Everything had been taken. The silverware from Grandmother Petra, tossed in a bag, was a knife to the heart. All our valuable paintings, ripped from the walls and tossed into a pile, was too much for my husband Jenko. He protested and got a bullet in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2654,9449,4519,5493,3921,673,1549,41,749,1285,1735,5521,4518,1244,9448,6370,9447,9450,2334,4396,7265],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bag","tag-bullet-in-the-head","tag-chin","tag-coat","tag-everything","tag-fate","tag-grandmother","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heart","tag-husband","tag-knife","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-paintings","tag-people","tag-pile","tag-platform","tag-silverware","tag-star-of-david","tag-train","tag-walls","tag-weeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}