Preparing for slip casting and fillings....

It feels strange cutting out the yellow star. All sorts of emotions come flooding in. It feels wrong. It fills me with anger, and I see in front of my me my grandma, sowing yellow stars on her clothing.Carefully ,neatly stitching. She was a fantastic seamstress. You could wear the clothes she made inside-out, and still see no difference.I see her In front of my eyes.A stubborn little Jewish girl stitching on the yellow Star with no words, just anger, held back-in behind tight-lips. I often wonder what would we have done? Would we agree to wear the yellow star or would we protests ? How painful must it have been,especially to the jews in Germany who felt more German then Jewish to be singled out .A holocaust survivor told me that for her, the most painful thing during the war, was, that her non Jewish friends were not allowed to play with her. "I was part of them, they were my best friends. The feeling of betrayal still hurts me today". What would I have done ? Would I obey? Flee the country ? Protest? ????

The momment that dreams die.

Most of our dreams and ideas for life are formed in our heads from a very young age. Kids act out alot of there dreams whilst playing with dolls. Dolls simobolize a very innocent and pure stage in life where everything is still possible. In a situation when there is war, children should not be involved, but they are usually the first ones to be affected. that is the momment when dreams die, when dolls simbolize death of dreams and games unfinished. ' broken dreams': when one interrupts a childhood with the cruelty of war, there is no more place for the childhood dream to exist, and then a new reality without dreams has to be reformed. the question ' what if the hollocust did not happen? ' how would the world look like? where wuld we be? where would we live?

Please give your vies and thoughts on the topic discussed above. thanks.