While growing up I’d discovered that my own family had a distant connection with a truly terrible one.įrom 1939 until 1945, I’d learned, the world had been at war and the leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler, had tried to destroy the Jewish people in Europe. I didn’t have to think too long about which war, or which example of huge-scale human unfriendliness. So I decided to place the two young friends in the middle of the most unfriendly human behaviour possible, on the largest scale I could think of. To investigate how friendship survives in tough times. I wanted to explore every part of friendship. Just that special person.īut I didn’t want the story to be too cosy and safe. You don’t even need much of an education or particularly posh clothes. I knew the characters would discover that you don’t need money or heroic deeds or contacts in high places to enjoy this precious gift. A wonderful friendship between two young people who can’t believe their luck because they’ve found what most of us want more than anything. I just wanted to write a story about a friendship. When I first started planning Once I had no idea that a 10 year old Polish Jewish boy would take me on the writing journey of my life. Once I was living in an orphanage in the mountains and I shouldn’t have been and I almost caused a riot.
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