Livia Bitton-Jackson 

Quote #3

 

After being put on house arrest, the Jews of Somorja are ordered to be consolidated into a ghetto in a town called Nagymagyar.  Elli says this quote as her family drives away with their possessions on a cart, “From the bend in the road I can see the yellow star on our house recede into the distance.  I cannot see the road ahead.  I am facing the past as it slips into oblivion.  The steel-spiked cart wheels churn up a coloud of dust sprinkled with tiny pebbles.  My birthplace is disappearing rapidly.  Will I ever see it again?”