Escape to Freedom

It was a bad time for the Jews. Many were trying to escape the Nazis’ cruelty. It was a time of sorrow and unknowing fear. The Nazis were rounding up Jews and sending them to concentration camps or worse; exterminating them. Families were being separated, never to see each other again. Many families were trying to hide in the countryside of France. Some even tried to make it to Switzerland which was a neutral country. It was a desperate time of survival.
Adina’s family was one such family. Adina (meaning gentle in Hebrew), was a 19 year old Jewish girl who lived on a small farm near Metz, France in the year 1943. She lived with her parents and her grandparents. Her grandparents had fled Germany and came to her parent’s farm when the Nazis started rounding up Jews. It was a hard time, an evil time. Every day was filled with uncertainty and fear. No one knew when the Germans would invade a home and arrest or even worse kill the family.