Mark Your Calendars!
Lizzie turns 16.
What is February 9, 1945?
...sharp as a razor...
What is simile?
Last family visit to Aunt Lotti and Uncle Manfred's farm after a quarrel about Hitler.
What is Summer 1938?
...the sky above us was filled with a thunderous throbbing roar....
What is alliteration?
Lizzie was born.
He went on joking and juggling, just the same, with the world falling apart about us.
The Allied bombing of Dresden begins in the evening. Lizzie, Mutti, Karli, and Marlen flee their home as the city is engulfed in flames.
What is February 13, 1945?
Just put one foot in front of the other....
What is idiom?
Germany invades Poland; World War II begins.
What is September 1, 1939?
We watched the moon sailing through the clouds.
What is personification?