Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport
Dedicated to every child in need of safe passage And a ticket to life And to Reid and Lucy C.S. For my beloved kinder Isaiah and Ginger S.A.
ONE SAVE LIFE SAVE THE WORLD
Czechoslovakia 1938 When we were seven or eight or nine or ten our home was the old city of Prague In the summer when the sun lit up the sky our mothers brought us to the city parks We counted the boats on the river and had picnics of dark bread with cheese and slices of our mothers sweet honey cake Biscuit Torte 3 ganze Bier Zucker 3/4 Str 3 Schnee & 11a vechselnd loff chluss dazug nächsten Ros Schokon Vanille Cream Dotter 14 dkg den rühren Mehl ab O
21 14 Apfeltorte rpler Strudel In the winter we skated on the rivers until the first stars appeared Then we walked hand in hand with our fathers to the coffeehouses Our fathers sipped from steaming cups We slurped hot cocoa and buried our noses in whipped cream
