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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
- Theme: Drama / Human Interest
- Subject: Drama
- Published: 02/22/2019
Jon Could be Your Daughter
Born 1954, M, from St Louis Mo, United StatesJon was a lovely 14 year old girl, with long black hair, mostly worn in two long braids. Her Rabi Macusus would tease her about her black as coal eyes that always glowed, for in the center he said was what looked like the Star of David. Her poppa worked in the flour mill and momma stayed at home and baked bread and took care of her and her 10 year old brother Isa.
She was like any girl her age obsessed with why her boobs were small. Picking on her brother. Flirting with Romo at school, and he was the cutest of them all. Watching her waist.
She was a jewish girl and didn't understand why everyone wasn't as her family. She did not understand other faiths and didn't want too. She didn't care about national politics and didn't want to.
She did her studies and loved to read, not romance, but stories of magic and fairies. Her poppa thought she was a foolish girl, but they loved each other dearly. What might surprise the readers is, they were not rich, not all Jews are rich. Just a average family making ends meet.
In 1933 the boycott of Jewish owned businesses began. She was too young to know what any of that meant or to care. Luck was with her family because the flour mill was owned by a German old man, Haus Smelter. Yet she was old enough to know something was wrong, momma and poppa were very careful when going out to get food.
People would call them names, and poppa had come home several times over the years beat up or covered in rotten eggs. Poppa said, some guy named Adolf was the source of hate for all Jews. And both poppa and momma and everyone she knew were scared.
In 1935 new laws were created that made all Jews second class citizens. This did change a already hard life. They were made to go to special classrooms at school. Other German girls wouldn't play with them. Lunches they had to eat apart from the rest.
She once asked why, we are the same color, born in same country, and now treated as dogs, her answer came with a hard slap across her face by the teacher. Then she was spit on and called her a Jew dog.
In 1938 Jon's life took its first major change. See the SS chief had become in charge of the police and all police were under him. Jews were arrested daily, many beaten to death. Her uncle Smitzimer was out spoken against this Adolf Hitler and Himmler.
Then a horrible thing happened. The SS and police steer the violence of Kristallnacht (Night of Crystal, more commonly known as “Night of Broken Glass”) toward the Jews of Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. During the pogrom, the German police round up around 30,000 Jews and incarcerate them in concentration camps. Her uncle was part of that group.
Poppa and Momma was now in constant fear that due to her uncle, attention had been brought on the family. Poppa said half of the men that worked him was now gone to be in the camp. Have you ever lived as a child in home shadowed by constant fear?
Jon did not know what it all meant, but life had changed. There was no singing and no one ever seemed to smile. If a sound of a truck was heard on the streets, people froze in place or hid. As a girl just growing up reaching puberty it was like living in a nightmare that had no end. Jon found she couldn't read and get lost in the stories any more.
What was hardest was to see momma kneading the bread and tears mixing in the dough. Poppa said they had to get Isa away, and they managed to sneak him to England. Poppa wanted to do that with Jon too, but it was hard to find a way for a girl. Now. Jon was all alone, she missed him, wished she had not teased him so much. She was scared she would never see him again.
Many of Jon's friends were from the Soviet. Odd how people seemed to think all Jews were born in one place. Are that muslims are all born in one place. In 1941 SS and police authorities supported by the military and by local auxiliaries begin to systematically shoot Soviet Jews. The fear grew and Jon saw their neighbors dragged to the street and shot. She threw up and spent the next two days crying.
Jon for the first time wondered if there were really a God? She wrestled with it in her heart. She decided there must be, for with out a God to cling to they had nothing but death.
What Jon did not know and no doubt was better she didn't. Göring authorizes Heydrich, chief of the RSHA, to coordinate the resources of the Reich for a “solution” to the “Jewish Question.”
Many may not know what that meant, Jon would have not known. It was the beginning of the extermination of Jews from all German occupied territories. How do you exterminate roach's? You kill the adults, and babies and eggs.
This was what nationalism is, not pride in a culture but extermination and division of all others as they are lessor beings. Jews were made as if animals, just as blacks were made as slaves, as Jews cast out muslims as lessors, they reaped a worse fate. Christian's did years of wars in a desire to exterminate anyone that would not claim allegiance. Now the Final solution was taking place, and young beautiful Jon was caught in the net.
In 1942 Jon's life was forever changed and that of an estimated 5.1 million Jews. Jon was among the families dragged from her home.
It was late fall, and she along with all the rest was marched to the train station. Then they were made to climb in to box cars. She could barely move and the stink, there was no getting used to. The bucket was full of waste and overflowed on the floor.
It was cold and three people died around her. She saw poppa try to fight to stay with momma and they shot him. She stood screaming but someone dragged her alone. She never saw momma again. She never saw Isa again, or any aunt or uncle or cousin.
When they reached a camp and people were lined up, she was taken away with a group to a hospital to have experiments done. God did not forsake her, she was taken to Paradise after only three days.
Stories like Jon, based on historical data, we were told could never happen again. I grew up thinking that, no fear such as that. Yet now I live to witness many of the same first steps being taken again. I hear shouts of nationalism. Maybe I am just a old foolish man, but I was always taught history has a way of repeating itself.
I have reason to say we need to pause, Jon could be your daughter if we allow hate and evil to rule us instead if good and caring.
Jon Could be Your Daughter(Rich Puckett)
Jon was a lovely 14 year old girl, with long black hair, mostly worn in two long braids. Her Rabi Macusus would tease her about her black as coal eyes that always glowed, for in the center he said was what looked like the Star of David. Her poppa worked in the flour mill and momma stayed at home and baked bread and took care of her and her 10 year old brother Isa.
She was like any girl her age obsessed with why her boobs were small. Picking on her brother. Flirting with Romo at school, and he was the cutest of them all. Watching her waist.
She was a jewish girl and didn't understand why everyone wasn't as her family. She did not understand other faiths and didn't want too. She didn't care about national politics and didn't want to.
She did her studies and loved to read, not romance, but stories of magic and fairies. Her poppa thought she was a foolish girl, but they loved each other dearly. What might surprise the readers is, they were not rich, not all Jews are rich. Just a average family making ends meet.
In 1933 the boycott of Jewish owned businesses began. She was too young to know what any of that meant or to care. Luck was with her family because the flour mill was owned by a German old man, Haus Smelter. Yet she was old enough to know something was wrong, momma and poppa were very careful when going out to get food.
People would call them names, and poppa had come home several times over the years beat up or covered in rotten eggs. Poppa said, some guy named Adolf was the source of hate for all Jews. And both poppa and momma and everyone she knew were scared.
In 1935 new laws were created that made all Jews second class citizens. This did change a already hard life. They were made to go to special classrooms at school. Other German girls wouldn't play with them. Lunches they had to eat apart from the rest.
She once asked why, we are the same color, born in same country, and now treated as dogs, her answer came with a hard slap across her face by the teacher. Then she was spit on and called her a Jew dog.
In 1938 Jon's life took its first major change. See the SS chief had become in charge of the police and all police were under him. Jews were arrested daily, many beaten to death. Her uncle Smitzimer was out spoken against this Adolf Hitler and Himmler.
Then a horrible thing happened. The SS and police steer the violence of Kristallnacht (Night of Crystal, more commonly known as “Night of Broken Glass”) toward the Jews of Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. During the pogrom, the German police round up around 30,000 Jews and incarcerate them in concentration camps. Her uncle was part of that group.
Poppa and Momma was now in constant fear that due to her uncle, attention had been brought on the family. Poppa said half of the men that worked him was now gone to be in the camp. Have you ever lived as a child in home shadowed by constant fear?
Jon did not know what it all meant, but life had changed. There was no singing and no one ever seemed to smile. If a sound of a truck was heard on the streets, people froze in place or hid. As a girl just growing up reaching puberty it was like living in a nightmare that had no end. Jon found she couldn't read and get lost in the stories any more.
What was hardest was to see momma kneading the bread and tears mixing in the dough. Poppa said they had to get Isa away, and they managed to sneak him to England. Poppa wanted to do that with Jon too, but it was hard to find a way for a girl. Now. Jon was all alone, she missed him, wished she had not teased him so much. She was scared she would never see him again.
Many of Jon's friends were from the Soviet. Odd how people seemed to think all Jews were born in one place. Are that muslims are all born in one place. In 1941 SS and police authorities supported by the military and by local auxiliaries begin to systematically shoot Soviet Jews. The fear grew and Jon saw their neighbors dragged to the street and shot. She threw up and spent the next two days crying.
Jon for the first time wondered if there were really a God? She wrestled with it in her heart. She decided there must be, for with out a God to cling to they had nothing but death.
What Jon did not know and no doubt was better she didn't. Göring authorizes Heydrich, chief of the RSHA, to coordinate the resources of the Reich for a “solution” to the “Jewish Question.”
Many may not know what that meant, Jon would have not known. It was the beginning of the extermination of Jews from all German occupied territories. How do you exterminate roach's? You kill the adults, and babies and eggs.
This was what nationalism is, not pride in a culture but extermination and division of all others as they are lessor beings. Jews were made as if animals, just as blacks were made as slaves, as Jews cast out muslims as lessors, they reaped a worse fate. Christian's did years of wars in a desire to exterminate anyone that would not claim allegiance. Now the Final solution was taking place, and young beautiful Jon was caught in the net.
In 1942 Jon's life was forever changed and that of an estimated 5.1 million Jews. Jon was among the families dragged from her home.
It was late fall, and she along with all the rest was marched to the train station. Then they were made to climb in to box cars. She could barely move and the stink, there was no getting used to. The bucket was full of waste and overflowed on the floor.
It was cold and three people died around her. She saw poppa try to fight to stay with momma and they shot him. She stood screaming but someone dragged her alone. She never saw momma again. She never saw Isa again, or any aunt or uncle or cousin.
When they reached a camp and people were lined up, she was taken away with a group to a hospital to have experiments done. God did not forsake her, she was taken to Paradise after only three days.
Stories like Jon, based on historical data, we were told could never happen again. I grew up thinking that, no fear such as that. Yet now I live to witness many of the same first steps being taken again. I hear shouts of nationalism. Maybe I am just a old foolish man, but I was always taught history has a way of repeating itself.
I have reason to say we need to pause, Jon could be your daughter if we allow hate and evil to rule us instead if good and caring.
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Gail Moore
02/24/2019Very powerful story. Thank you for you wonderful words of wisdom.
Brilliant finish to your story.
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