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Podĕbrady, January 1942. People here are sad and everyone is taking the war with difficulty. This includes Aryans and non-Aryans, to use this rather peculiar naming into which God's creation are now divided. We wear stars as you know, some proudly, some hide them even though you are not allowed to. We live in strange times and are viewed by some as members of a less valuable race. Of course, blacks are also underrated and yet the world is quiet about that, even Jews. When God enlightens our brains and we understand that we are all equal before God, it will be better.
THE SENTENCES ABOVE ARE FROM THE JOURNAL OF RŮŠ1/2 ENA Spieglová, a widow living alone, mourning her daughter's recent death, and observing from within the shackles that-during the severe winter of 1942-tightened around Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.