- GHOST ECHO OF THE DARK PAST -
Jill was eight years old
and in a few days time the Berlin wall would start to be
built (20 August 1961).The journey from Wales U.K. was a
long one to Poland for three children,mother and father
in a single car. But Jill absolutely loved travelling and
car trips were her favourite window to the world. Victor
her father had to drive far to take his family to his
birthplace of Katowice Poland to visit his large family
which he had infrequently visited since wartime.. Plane
travel was expensive and at the time flights to Poland
fairly rare.
On arrival Brother Alois had taken a shine to Victors
automobile and asked if he could drive it. So the next
day an ad-hoc countryside drive was arranged, Alois at
the wheel and Jill begged to go along leaving the other
children to play with their cousins.
Visiting many familiar places around Katowice Jill loved
her father describing the areas where he grew up. Many
twists and turns in the road and then for her father an
unusual unfamiliar road was turned into.. Before any
words could be said about the new route Jill started to
scream uncontrollably from the rear seat.
'Let me out!..Let me out!' In a hysterical, tone.
The brothers stopped the car and tried to pacify the
little girl. She leapt from the car and started to run in
the opposite direction to the main highway, her father
managed to restrain her and get her back to the car.
Alois had already tuned the vehicle around and then
picked the pair up. Jill stopped the most unusual display
as soon as she realised the vehicle was heading back to
the highway.
'Has she ever behaved like that before?' asked Alois.
'No.. Never' replied Victor.. 'She loves the car I can't
think what's wrong?'
'Do you know what is at the end of that road? asked Alois
shaking his head..'Oswiecim' (Auschwitz, a wartime Nazi
death camp).
Victor just looked at his brother.Neither said another
word (or Jill) until they returned home. A very strange
event.
Jill today (although somewhat older) still vividly
remembers the incident. But all she can remember of her
hysterical behaviour that day in the car is that suddenly
she could not see, or think properly and that everything
went sort of black. And she has never had any sort of
experience like that since.
Did Jill
that day have some sort of an affinity with past events
that day?
Or maybe just picked up on some sort of spiritual side..You
decide.
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