The read-alouds of the last week of January were devoted to the Holocaust. How to talk about horror to children? How to explain that a few decades ago other children in our country and throughout Europe were exterminated in cold blood? At what age will it be possible to offset the horror they will feel with something substantial – reflection on racism, on prejudice, on marginalization, on what a passive attitude towards the evil that happens next to us leads us to?

In the book, "Erica" describes how she imagines her parents' last days: leaving the dirty, impoverished ghetto and hoping that the trains would take them somewhere better, the endless days they spent locked, huddled, and standing in train for animals, the painful realization that they are not going to a better place. She wonders when her mother decided what she did and how she spent her last minutes with her newborn baby. A true story with sharp narration full of questions.

After all, Erica was a lucky child. She was saved by some caring people who risked their lives to help her. Her sta shone on earth. She loved, and bore children and grandchildren.....

At the end of the reading, we tried to put ourselves a little in the mother's place. What was she thinking? What was she feeling? The children become the mother and wrote letters to Erica. Letters full of sensitivity, love, pain, ...

...My dearest daughter, from the moment you left my arms....