I'm so pathetic - sobbing my heart out over Charlotte Grey

[GeorginaA]

Just got to the part where the two little jewish boys are being put on the train to Poland (presumably to Aushwitz?) and there's a description of a baby only a few weeks old being passed up onto the train.

I've had to put the book down.

Oh god, I remember that, it's AWFUL. Think dd1 was v small when I read it. Shudders.

I have a 15 week old - I'm thinking it probably wasn't my best book choice

F* no, I gave my copy away because I knew that I would never be able to re-read it, and I usualy re-read books. It was heart rending.

I read about half of 'Girl in a red dress' and couldn't finish it
I won't even tell you the 2 bits that still haunt me from it as they are too awful!!!!

When dd1 was about a week old, her dad and I were crashed out one rainy February afternoon with a video and a plate of biscuits while the baby slept in that new-baby way they do just before becoming Insomniac Wail Monsters. We thought The Mask of Zorro would be suitably undemanding. Except that DP ended up traumatised because - horrors - Zorro's baby daughter gets taken away.

I read CG about 3 weeks before I had my second son, and it made me cry every night for 6 weeks after I had him because the boys in the book had about the same age difference as mine.....I gave the book to charity shop, couldn't pass it on to anyone, it was too sad.

oh crikey. don't go anywhere near sophie's choice dh studies the holocaust and because of that we are frequently reminded of the horrors of what happened. when i think of "into the arms of strangers" (documentary about the KinderTransport) i often wonder what i would have done.

Glutton for punishment, I've just finished watching Schindler's List (for the 2nd time).

Cried buckets over the kid's transport to Auschwitz... had to stop and have a cuddle before I could watch any more.

I just can't comprehend the numbers involved who were saved via Oskar Schindler (6000 survivors & descendants now) let alone the numbers involved in 6 million dead. Very humbled.

Can't get over how crap I am at whinging when life isn't going right and I have so much to be thankful for. Also can't get over how the world hasn't travelled very far in terms of racist attitudes since then.

never read the book but watched the film with Cate Blanchett ..cried at this part too (Schindler's List....f* me that is so heart wrenching wouldn't even read the book as the film was so sorrowful in every aspect).

btw GeorginaA...looking forward to meeting you on the 3rd!

Me too - it'll be good to put faces to names!