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An unforgettable memory
War. Even as we hear this word we feel anxious. How many lives has it
taken away?
I have a granny. Her name is Nadya. Now she is 70. When the Second
World War began she was 6 years old. She was very little. A person of
this age doesn’t understand many things. She can’t defend herself as a
person. My granny told me that there were five members in her family:
her elder sisters Kate, Tamara, Shura and a brother Vanya. They lived
together with their father and they had three stepmothers during the war.
Their father was a forest guard. He joined the partisan movement. But in
December 1944 he was killed. My granny even today can’t find his
grave. She remembers that when the war broke out they ran to the forest
and hid themselves there for a long time. During the war they lived in
their house, but when the fascists came they hid in the cellar near the
house. My granny and many other people fell ill with a very dangerous
illness: they saw so much horror of the war.
When the war began, only some weeks or months later they saw many
little boys and girls walking somewhere. My granny and others who
were with her grew quiet. Nobody said anything. Then they heard much
fighting, planes, tanks, they heard rockets. It was terrible.
My granny remembered when they were taken prisoners. There were
some German soldiers who let our Belarusian soldiers out, pretending
that they didn’t notice them. It was a generous act. Now every person
who remembers this terrible war has a very great wound in his heart.
Dasha Korolenya
Age 15 years
Gymnasium #1, Slonim
Belarus
Tsunami
Tsunami is a life-threatening monster
Which brings a great disaster.
When it goes, the survivors are left to suffer.
Ahmed Hashmi
Grammar School, Rawalpindi
Pakistan
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