1944 by Lizzy Sara May

1944 The week before my mother was fetched from her safehouse I was with her with my little son eleven months old she took him on her lap held him with one hand and with the other put a record on the gramophone will you give a hand? she asked me I played the record my son began to sway you see said my mother he's musical after the war I'll give him music lessons a week later she was locked up in a detention centre and when she was transported to westerbork she wrote me on a scrap of paper I'm alright a year later when we received her possessions we found her calendar changeable cards in a holder it had stopped on the fourteen of April only this card was yellowed

Lizzy Sara May [1918-1988]

Original title: 1944 - From the collection: Grim - 1969 - Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam