In the year of 1940 my family and I were forced out of our home in Nove Mesto, Czechoslovakia. The day it happen, it started out good, when I woke up to the clicking sounds of silver wear being placed on the table, the sweet honey fragrance of biscuits being cooked with unscrambled eggs. My mouth began to water as I stepped out of bed. It took me a second to adjust to the sunlight coming through my window, that's when I dashed out of my room, down the hall past my mother and father's room, towards the kitchen to join my family. When I entered the kitchen, my dad, Karel was already sitting at the table along with my sister Hana reading the new