I love love stories...

It may seem like a strange place to find a love story... but today I found this 'last letter' at the Imperial War Museum in London. This was in the Holocaust Exhibit, a last love letter from a husband on his way to a Nazi death camp. Its really quite beautiful, and I thought worth taking a moment to share.

23 September 1942

My dearest little wife,

The dice have been cast. I am heading towards deportation and it is while the train is moving that I am throwing this last letter to an employee of the railways in the hope that he will post it without a stamp…

I leave in good health and if we are able to resist the regime that is waiting for us, I will some back. I ask you to do as I am doing and to take courage and to hope. Don’t renounce anything for yourself. Don’t worry about your future, while you are waiting for my return, If I get out, I hope that we will live happily…. Have confidence and don’t fall into despair.

All my thoughts and all my love are in this last letter together with my gentle, tender kisses.

Your husband,

Adrien

Beautiful isn't it?

Just an update.... I leave for Scotland tomorrow! Its so crazy to think that I am just hoping on a train and going to another country! So crazy! And yes, I am taking a train, and yes I will feel like I am on the Hogwarts Express (I even leave from Kings Cross Station!) and no I do not feel like a nerd about it.... well maybe just a little bit. I promise there will be pictures and stories to tell, probably many of them involving me getting lost.... But as a very sweet and wise young woman just reminded me, "No one ever wrote a good story, or lived one for that matter, by taking it easy!" (Thank you Amber, you are so wonderful!)

  So here goes! Wish me luck my friends!