The Importance Of Lif Life In The Second World War

I decided to write this story after my sister Rachel, who was sixteen years my senior, passed away.
The Second World War was the reason for this difference in age: she was twelve years old when the War started, spending teenage years struggling for survival during evacuation, post War hunger, disease, long lines for rations of flour and sugar. I, (most likely an accident), was born after the War; in America I am a part of the baby boomers generation. Regrettably, nobody in our family talked about horrors of War, weeks in the cold trains while traveling to the little town in the Northern Caucasian Mountain, or the life during several years away from home while sharing a room with the strangers. By the time Rachel turned sixteen, she lived through some of the worst times in human history; these times made her strong and resilient. …show more content…
There was never enough food or clothes; living conditions in the communal apartment without running water and toilet were deplorable, and, to top it all, normal problems of young adult: pimples, bad hair, and insecurities- Rachel had it all. Yet, in the high school, she excelled in all subjects, while helping my mom with the new baby (me); had a big plan to become a teacher, and the boys were already in the picture. As every family, we had a favorite story that was re-told many times, the story how our mother had sewn Rachel’s best dress from the pink diapers given to us by the government as a present for the birth of post war baby (me). Really, who could waste perfectly new pink flannel fabric for wrapping the soiled child, when the pieces of old, torn sheets were available? That dress was the highlight of Rachel’s high school graduation