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This scene is a flashback when Raja and her family are getting ready to celebrate Shabbat in their home of Prague. This takes place at the beginning of the Holocaust when restrictions were just starting to be put on the Jews. Raja’s mother sharply tells Raja not to look out the window. Her brother, Pavel, enters worried that she will get them all in trouble. At last Raja’s father and his sister, Aunt Vera, arrive home and everyone breathes a sigh of relief. However, their relief doesn’t last
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Mother…(As she enters carrying the candles, speaking over her shoulder). Raja, cover the bread - - and close the door to the kitchen; the candles will go out…
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(the following lines are overlapping) Mother…Blessed art thou, O Lord our God… Pavel…The tanks…and guards. They’re in the street Mother…His Commandments and commanded us too… Father…They’ll be here soon Mother…to kindle the Sabbath lights.
Raspanti, Celeste. I Never Saw Another Butterfly, Dramatic Publishing, Woodstock, IL, 1994, pp.12-19.
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