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189 Fall 1944 Rixensart Henry Stark First: fields of wheat and dandelions The smell of hay Country roads and abandoned gliders Chickens squawking in the yard Later: country roads and fields of snow Children on their sleds I have one too; mine is Handmade, wood, solid Beautiful, my first toy I’m smiling That’s what freedom does.* *After the liberation of Antwerp, the author, Henry Stark, and his family moved to a small rural community near Brussels called Rixensart to avoid the bombing of Antwerp by the Germans. After being in hiding nearly four years, the author recalls his first opportunity to live life in the same manner as non-Jewish children did. ...

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