Sara had ambitions; she believed in herself but also in a higher power that protected her. An orphan girl finds her way in a cruel world at the beginning of the 19th century in pogrom-stricken anti-Semitic Poland.
Genre: FICTION / Jewish"Don't be afraid of fear." These words echoed in my head while I was so far away from the village that only the black cloud that enfolded the entire town could be seen in the distance. The screams of terrorized inhabitants still resonated in my head, and my heart beat very hard in my chest. I had to find shelter and lie under one of the trees on the outskirts of the forest due to the dizziness that struck me.
"What am I supposed to do now?" I asked myself, and I had no answer. I closed my eyes and waited for the man from Haukaloolloo to appear, but he did not seem.
The evening began to fall, and the road led me nowhere. I didn't meet living souls; no houses were visible on the horizon. I decided to sleep in the forest and to continue in daylight the following morning.
The ancient and dense trees rose tremendously and created total darkness. I tried to find a hiding place to protect me from animals and forest dwellers, but I saw nothing. A thin rain started to fall, and I got a slight chill.
I decided to return to the path when I suddenly ran into a tree trunk and fell. Although most of the town's residents where I was born were observant religious, my parents were not ultra-Orthodox and did not observe all the Jewish mitzvoth.
