Helmut Lauschke - David, the forgotten child

The woman in uniform also says that she has to leave the house around eight-thirty in order to be at work on time. David is supposed to keep quiet while she is away in the house, the window of which is drawn with the curtain and the front door is locked. He should absolutely observe the precautionary measures in order to counter any suspicion of a second person in the small rear building, because failure to do so would inevitably put her and his life at risk, because the road and house controls are strict and ruthless. She would be back from work in the evening and prepare dinner for him. "For lunch I put two slices of bread with margarine and beet jam on a plate on the sideboard next to the kitchen table," says the woman shortly before eight thirty and leaves the house in uniform and locks the front door.

For David it is a huge challenge to adhere to the precautionary measures, while he is in a completely strange house, in which he does not know his way around. The advantage is the smallness of the house with the simplicity of the furnishings, which is noticeable even for a child, which makes it easier for him to familiarize himself with the conditions. He puts the toothpaste on his right index finger and runs that finger over his teeth. Rubbing the finger over the outside of the rows of teeth is easy, but over the inside of the rows of teeth it is difficult to break off the rubbing procedure. Washing his face and upper body with cold water, on the other hand, does not pose any difficulty to him, as the water for washing his face and body at home was only cold.

He dries himself off in the little towel that hangs to the right of the washbasin, runs his fingers through his hair as a comb replacement, and in the small back room next to the old armchair as a bed replacement he puts on the things that are left of the driving and walking procedure the previous day is spotty and dirty. There is even a centimeter-long tear on the pants. David goes into the small kitchen and has breakfast from two slices of bread with margarine and beetroot jam. The Kathreiner brand's warm grain coffee appeals to him the most. He holds the half-empty cup in his hands as he tries to establish telepathic contact with his parents. Inside he calls out the names of his father and his mother, which had to be shielded from the outside so as not to raise suspicions with the chained mortal danger. So David calls out the names of his parents with the greatest desire, but he does not get an answer, as he could easily get in his shouting dream in the darkened and locked room in the train station.

It fills him with fear and the greatest concern that communication with his parents has broken off, until the umpteenth time the call is repeated, a voice can be heard from far away that was his mother's voice and told the son that the train was coming had arrived where he had to drive people with the many overcrowded wagons. “Where are you and where is Father?” David calls out loud to himself, which could not be heard from outside. Mother's voice begins to falter when she says that she and the father were separated after getting out of the wagon. "What do you say?" David yelled excitedly to himself. As she swayed, mother's voice became quieter and quieter, without answering the question of where the train took her and father. It is also the last time that David was able to make voice contact with his mother. In his childlike belief in the good in people, little David cannot even suspect what was going to happen after the extinction of mother's voice and what was kept secret from the child.

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