Sarah's Perspective: A Short Story

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Sarah’s Perspective:
It all started when Sarah, a 10-year-old girl was woken up by the sounds of French policeman yelling and banging on their apartment door. Sarah and her family are Jew’s, her father had already told her that only the men were in trouble not the children or the women. He hid in the cellar every night because of that. That was not the truth, after all, the French policeman have told them to pack up and come with them. Sarah had a younger brother too named Michel, to protect Michel she decided to lock him in his secret hiding spot. His secret hiding spot was in a hidden cupboard in the bedroom, Sarah locked him in there to keep him safe and promised to come back to him. The French policeman searched the house because they knew

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