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|   Get to Know Her Describe what a typical day is like for you. Here I am, having arrived in Toronto from my home in Czechoslovakia. I am trying to adjust to so many things. The English language is so strange to me. Every day I wake up and go to a school where I am trying to learn English. My friend Alice is helping me. Not all the children at school are as friendly as Alice. When I get home from school, I help my Mamma in our apartment. Who is the most important person in your life? Right now Mamma is the most important person in my life. But I am so afraid of what has happened to my Papa. When we left Czechoslovakia, he was arrested by the Nazis and taken away, just like so many other Jewish people. I hope he is safe. I think about him every day. What thing do you love most in the world? I love my journal. Every day I write something about my life -- my hopes, my fears, the things that make me laugh and cry. I write in Czech, which is my first language, but I also try to write in English. It helps to write my thoughts in my journal. What is your greatest wish? My greatest wish is for the world to live in peace and for there never to be another war. I was lucky enough to live through this one - World War II. But I don't want another person to endure what the Jewish people had to go through. What is your greatest fear? My greatest fear is for my father's safety. I hope he hasn't been hurt. I hope he will be the same as he always was before the war. What do you do for fun? I am learning all kinds of new games in Toronto. Alice taught me some skipping games. I also get to help Alice in her parents' flower shop. I love the flowers, and Alice and I have fun working together. What aspects of the twenty-first century do you think you would love the most? I would love the fact that Jewish people are welcome to come to live in Canada. When I came to Toronto in 1944, it wasn't that easy. Canada did not allow many Jewish people to enter. Luckily that has changed. What aspect of the twenty-first century would you dislike the most? It's been hard enough to understand how kids my age are dressing in the 1940s. I can't imagine how hard it would be to dress like everyone else in the twenty-first century! |
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