The Children’s Train

At the Reinigen Camp yard, Eva and Lory sat beside Helga. Eva smiled. “Look what I found.” Eva opened her hand to show them a candy bar. She divided it into three pieces, handing one piece to Lory.

Lory looked at the rich dark chocolate. “Where did you get the sweet?” she asked, awestruck.

“Hidden in a suitcase pocket,” Eva whispered.

“I’ve forgotten what chocolate tastes like,” Lory said, as she shoved hers into her mouth. Eva held out a piece to her mother as she raised her other hand to eat hers. Her mother hit her hands, and both pieces of chocolate fell on the hard dusty ground.

“Don’t eat that. You stole it from your people,” Helga said. “If they catch us, they will kill us.”

“They’re going to kill us anyway, and I think we should have it rather than a Nazi.”

“I will not die over chocolate. It’s not dignified,” Helga scoffed.

Lory snatched the dusty pieces of chocolate off the ground and tossed them into her mouth. “My people would want me to have it,” she said, as she chewed the sweet chocolate.