History of Sorts

I am a child

I am innocent

I am a daughter

I am a primary school pupil

I am a young girl

I am a human being

I am human

I am a child with a whole future ahead of herself

I am a potential future painter, decorator, dentist, neurosurgeon, homemaker, artist, musician, dancer, actress, virologist, someone who finds the cure for cancer, a mother, wife, girlfriend—I am all that and more

I am a product of love

I am someone hated by an evil regime

I am someone who was murdered, maybe by someone who had a daughter the same age as me.

I am murdered by someone who maybe goes to church every Sunday and prays to the same god that I believe in but in a different way

I am to be murdered at Auschwitz in a gas chamber, as are my parents.

I am Eva Gersch, aged 7 or 8, the daughter of Rudolph Gersch and Elisabeth Grunfeld Gersch.

I am