The Unforgettable War by Katelyn

Daisy had always wanted to meet her family that lived in Europe so her father and stepmother thought it would be a perfect time for her to go since her stepmother was pregnant. When she got off the plane she met them all and they spent a lot of time together and learned a lot about each other in the few days that Daisy had been there. The house she stayed in was on a farm and it was far away from town. There was a wide rolling field and a lot of animals. It had only been a couple days since she was there but her aunt had to leave for on a business trip and wouldn’t be back for a week. The day after she left a train station was bombed and a war started to break out. Over the next couple of days everything seemed to be fine until a doctor showed up at the farm where she was living. He looked around and said that this was a perfect spot and it would be the headquarters for the army. Daisy and one of her cousin Piper were relocated to a house in Poland.

She meet Rebecca another American who was there trying to find out what happened during her grandmothers lifetime.

“ My grand mother Gemma always used to tell me about the story of Briar Rose and while she was sick in the hospital she always told me it was her.” Rebecca said

“What was it about?” Daisy asked.

“ It was about a princess who lived in a castle where everyone there fell asleep from poisonous fumes and only the princess was kissed awake by her prince.” Rebecca told.
“I wonder if your grandmother was the princess in the story?” Daisy asked.

“ That’s what I came here to find out.” Rebecca answered.

Daisy and piper got the few things that they had brought with them unpacked and looked around. It looked like Daisy and Piper where staying in Mrs. McEvoy’s sons bedroom. While Daisy and Piper where staying at the McEvoy’s they learned a lot about the war since Mr. McEvoy was a major in the war. They also learned a lot about Rebecca’s grandmother and what she already had been through trying to figure out what her grandmothers past was like. The war was getting worse so the McEvoy family, Rebecca, Daisy and Piper were relocated to an army base where they met some other families and people going through the same thing. While they were there they met a couple of people of interesting people.

“ Yeah I remember the war I escaped from a prison and hid out with other people. We hid out and traveled all over Poland and looked for other people who had escaped and were in hiding.” Joseph told.
“Do you remember any of the people that you met?” Rebecca said.

“ I wonder if one of them was your grandma.” Daisy piped in.

“ Was your grandma captured during the war?” Joseph asked.

“ Yeah, she was captured by the Nazis and taken to a camp, I came to Poland to figure out what happened in her past.” Rebecca replied.

“ What was her name?” Joseph said.

“ I am not sure, she had many. One was Ksiezniczka…” Rebecca said.

“ I knew a girl with her name, she had orange hair and pale skin, we called her that because she forgot her name and she told us she came from a castle.” Joseph interrupted.

“ That was in the story my grandma told me, that was my Gemma, how did you know her?” Rebecca excitedly said.

Daisy, Piper, and Rebecca sat quietly while Joseph told the story of how he meet Gemma and who Rebecca’s grandfather was. He had meet her when a fellow friend that was in hiding dug through dead bodies and pulled out a girl that was still moving. They kissed her alive and she told them how she was trapped in a castle and fumes knocked everyone out. Daisy Rebecca, and Piper realized that this was Gemma’s story and she was really Briar Rose. She had been taken to a concentration camp located in an abandon castle and been poisoned by car fumes as the Nazis brought to burry her and many others.

It had been many weeks since the war had begun. It was in the middle of the night when Daisy, Rebecca and Piper were woken up by people screaming and gunshots. The war had reached them. They grabbed all the things they could carry and ran into the woods. They walked until sunrise and then rested. They took the compass Daisy had taken from the McEvoy’s house and followed that. They weren’t sure where to go until they got to a river and Piper realized this river went by her farm. They followed it for many miles until they got to the town by the farm. They were so excited to see something familiar they ran to their farm. When they got there it was trashed from the soldiers but they cleaned it up to the best that they could.

Weeks past and Piper and Daisy were reunited with their cousins. Rebecca was happy with the information that she found and went back to America a couple days after the cousins were reunited. Rebecca told her story to her sisters and nephews and nieces Daisy eventually left and went home to live with her father, stepmother, and new stepbrother. Years past but Daisy went back to Europe and lived with her cousins since her aunt had died in the war trying to get home to her kids. Daisy and Rebecca kept in touch and stayed good friends and never forgot the days that they spent together.