Two tickets

 

I don’t now what to tell you.

But this is not a good place to be right now.

Not for Jews anyway.

I’m scared for both of us

Especially with everything thing they’ve taken from us already

But I’ve heard talk about worse things.

Camps and ghettos out east.

Maybe it’s just talk.

Maybe they’re just trying to scare people like us,

Communists, Jews, gypsies and such.

Well, it’s worked, I’m scared.

I know your people have been through things like this before and survived.

But this is different.

I feel it in my bones.

We need to get out while we still can.

Where?

I thought about that and since America won’t take us and Palestine is closed, I’ve managed to get us two tickets to England.

I had to get someone to promise me a job first, and in these times, that was tough, but I did it.

We have to go now before it’s too late.

I know you don’t want to go without your parents.

I don’t want to leave mine behind either.

But we only have two tickets and if we don’t take them, we’ll get stuck here, too.

Maybe it isn’t fair. Maybe they won’t understand. Maybe they’re as scared as we are and can’t believe things will get worse then they already are.

I’m hoping they’ll understand that if we have a chance to get out, we have to take it.

Please, come with me. I don’t want to leave you.

But if I have to go alone, I will.

Even if I regret it for the rest of my life.