Thread: We're All Mad Here [Cola | Bones]

But Im -not- Jewish! Im German, just like you! It was inevitable that she would be discovered a Jewish girl hiding in Germany under the false guise of Frulein Liesel Mauss . The fact that she hid in secrecy for ten years was inconceivable, if not downright unbelievable, but it was not her own will that created a haven for the past ten years rather, she was fortunate enough to have biological partners who cared enough about her well-being to place her up for adoption, and even more fortunate to have been adopted by an affluent German couple. Gereon and Ilse Mauss, God bless the two of them. They were in their mid-forties when the girls biological parents requested their assistance, and they took her in without a second thought. Though they were quick to assure the biological parents Liesel had long forgotten their names that they had no love for Nazi ideology, the real reason behind their generosity lied in the fact that Ilse was not fertile and would never bear her husband a child. Nevertheless, they loved and raised the girl as if she were their own. They gave her their surname her records would account her as Liesel Sterger but allowed her to keep her given name, for her name was both Hebrew and German in origin. The only problem was that she looked nothing like her adopted parents. They had fair-hair and blue eyes Liesel had dark hair and brown eyes. They spoke German Liesel understood enough German to survive, but she spoke Yiddish with a heavy accent. For these reasons she was confined to the house and only lingered outside when necessary, and when the family did venture outside she was not allowed to speak, lest her accent attract the attention of the Schutzstaffel. She continued her education through private tutors. She continued to live in borrowed time until she was seventeen. Her fortune lasted until one of her private tutors the wife of an Obertruppfhrer tattled. Gereon and Ilse were murdered for treason for harboring a dummer Saujuden , of all things a stupid Jew and Liesel was forced on the next train to Buchenwald. The sound of the alarm woke her instantly. It amazed her that she could even fall asleep in a place like this, though she supposed no one could stay awake forever, not even after witnessing half of the stuff they had. It had been one day since she arrived in this hellhole, and so much had changed since she stepped off of the cattle cart. Her hair had been pulled out in great clumps due to blunt scissors. The numbers 73489 were now permanently etched into her left forearm. She was no longer dressed in habitable clothes instead, she had been given rags to wear, thin shreds of clothing that had been worn by other prisoners, so they were now dirty and uncomfortable. Liesel never complained. She followed the other female inmates as they left their housing a pitiful excuse for housing, really they were forced to share a bunk for three other females, sometimes four to stand in line for breakfast. She had to force herself not to yawn. Liesel knew not what time it was, but it had to be early, as the sky was still dark and she could still see the stars. Four oclock? Five oclock? Somewhere in that time frame. They were given stale bread and coffee which in reality was nothing more than lukewarm water with a few used coffee grounds thrown in for breakfast. It was the first thing she had been given to eat since she was ripped from her former life, and while it looked appalling her stomach rumbled in hunger. She took the food in gratitude and found an area to herself. They were allowed to sit and eat their food before they begin their work, but never unattended. There were always a few officers and soldiers who patrolled the area. Liesel paid no attention to them as she nibbled on the stale bread, the rumble of her stomach increasing due to the sour taste and hard texture of the bread.