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TWO WEEKS LATER

Sasha walks into the kitchen, puts her arm around her mother’s shoulders, and peers into the pot.

“Hey, we saw this amazing DVD today called Paper Clips. This school in America used the Internet to get people to send in a paper-clip for every victim of the Holocaust. It was brilliant. When are we eating?”

“In about half an hour.”

“Can I taste?”

“Sure.”

“Yumm … I’m going to do some work. Call me when it’s ready.”

And she’s off to her room.

Dropping into her chair, she searches ‘ holocaust’.

When her mother calls her forty minutes later, Sasha is in tears .

“It’s so insane. And it was only seventy years ago. I mean … that’s so scary.”

“Sure is.”

“So many ordinary people killed like that — even little kids. How could people let it happen?”

“Maybe they didn’t know what was going on?”

“No way. They had to. And people did it. What sick thing made them do it? … And why didn’t everyone else try to stop it?”

“Too scared to get involved … turn on the kettle for me… It’s like bullying at school. People are scared it’ll turn on them, so they don’t do anything.”

“They should have done something. No one should let something like that happen. No one.”