At three o'clock (Hello had left but was supposed to come back later), the doorbell rang.
I didn't hear it, since I was out on the balcony, lazily reading in the sun.
A little while later Margot appeared in the kitchen doorway looking very agitated.
“Father has received a call-up notice from the SS,” she whispered.
“Mother has gone to see Mr. van Daan” (Mr. van Daan is Father's business partner and a good friend.)
I was stunned. A call-up: everyone knows what that means.
Visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced through my head. How could we let Father go to such a fate?
“Of course he's not going,” declared Margot as we waited for Mother in the living room.
“Mother's gone to Mr. van Daan to ask whether we can move to our hiding place tomorrow.
The van Daans are going with us. There will be seven of us altogether.” Silence. We couldn't speak.
The thought of Father off visiting someone in the Jewish Hospital and completely unaware of what was happening, the long wait for
Mother, the heat, the suspense -- all this reduced us to silence.
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