{"id":6166,"date":"2018-08-12T23:07:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T23:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2018-08-12T23:07:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T23:07:10","slug":"i-could-never-believe-i-had-been-so-foolish-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/6166","title":{"rendered":"I could never believe I had been so foolish \u2013 a story"},"content":{"rendered":"

I could never believe I had been so foolish \u2013 a story<\/strong><\/p>\n

It had been several days since the Nazis had kept me confined in this rotten cell. They starved and tortured me to squeeze whatever information I had, as they thought the fear and hunger would make me talk, but they were wrong. I would never betray my friends no matter what the cost was.<\/p>\n

More days passed, and my hope of escaping was slowly wavering. I was about to give in to the pain and suffering, but when an idiotic guard forgot to tie me up properly after one of their torture sessions, I took the chance and strangled him to death. \u2018Snap\u2019 could \u00a0be heard as the neck of the guard was twisted and how still the body became in a sudden. I then escaped from my confinement and started to find my way back to the base. Strangely enough, there weren\u2019t a lot of guards guarding the facility by the time I escaped, but well, a chance was a chance. I wasn\u2019t going to waste my chance and stay in the prison any longer.<\/p>\n

I found myself in the countryside once again, and recognised the path to home. I was so relieved that I nearly cried out in joy, but I managed to control myself. I reminded myself that there was still a long way to home, and continued my journey.<\/p>\n

Days after days, I finally reached the base up in the mountain. I crumbled to my knees and felt the streams of tears on my face. \u201cI\u2019m finally back,\u201d and that\u2019s all I could think of. I could see my friends rushing towards me, embracing me with words of comfort, but something felt wrong. Something wasn\u2019t right, as I could feel those pairs of eyes staring at us from far behind. Those icy cold eyes seemed to have pierced through my soul as I heard the familiar buzzing sound from walky-talkies and someone speaking in German. My friends were immediately alert and tried to locate the scouts, but they were too late. The rotating blades of a helicopter could be seen from miles away, and I knew it was too late for everyone to evacuate and escape. The Nazis would be here within minutes, and a base filled with hundreds of Jews would take at least hours to escape, hours that we didn\u2019t have. My knees shook violently and I fell to the ground in defeat and hopelessness, as I knew that I doomed the ones that I loved and cared about. I could not believe I had been so foolish, and now everyone I knew had to pay the price…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I could never believe I had been so foolish \u2013 a stor<\/strong>It had been several days since the Nazis had kept me confined in this rotten cell. They starved and tortured me to squeeze whatever information I had, as they thought the fear and hunger would make me talk, but they were wrong. I would never betra.........Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-s2","schoolyear-77"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}