Submitted by pitapiper125 t3_122bocc in books
I know i read this in school but it must not have impacted me, as I didn't remember much. Re visiting this as an adult... is effing heartbreaking.
It hurts so much to think of how despite everything this bright young girl was going through, knowing the horrific future that she eventually did succumb to, still remained much more optimistic than any adult ever would have.
"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again."
That was a month before her and her family were taken away.
Breaks my goddamn heart.