“How I see myself a year from now”
Translation:
“This is How I Imagine Myself a Year from Now”
I cannot know how things will be for me a year from now, because the world is not peaceful and so there is nothing I can know. Who knows where we will end up during that time? Will we, God forbid, perhaps have to experience what the children of Warsaw have experienced? Are we children assured about what we will be doing a year from now? We still will have to experience a lot. And when the war ends, then I will know what will become of me. If only the world will be peaceful, I think I will continue to study. But who knows in what unfamiliar languages we will have to study? But we think that the sun will still rise for us children a year from now and we will continue to study as before.
Sholem-Aleichem School, 6th Grade
Dobe Kliger, June 19,1940
Digitization of this artifact has been made possible by the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project.
