War Diaries (August 8) (nonfiction)
War Diary quotations for August 8
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Reina Spiegel: August 8, 1940
Renia Spiegel began her diary in January 1939 at the age of 15.
Our visit to Daddy has been put off day after day. Now we don’t have much summer vacation left, but we’re still going.
What does it matter that they have torn lands apart, that they have divided brothers, sent children far away from their mothers? What does it matter that they say “This is mine” or “The border is here”? The clouds, the birds and the sun laugh at these borders, at human beings, at their guns. They go back and forth, smuggling rain, blades of grass, rays of sunshine. And no one even thinks of banning them. If they even tried, the sun would burst out with bright laughter and they’d have to close their eyes. The clouds, birds, and wind would follow. So would one small human soul, and plenty of my thoughts.
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- Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel @ Smithsonian Magazine