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The Tyrant Virus
Benjamin Wu, 11
The Coronavirus shows no intention of going away
Bulking up and gushing out day by day
Huffing and puffing and doling out dismay
Tossing disease around like confetti everyday.
Flooding the nation with desperate despair
Death toll so high,
Cases erupting
Spreading fear across the globe.
Rampaging across America in a destructive way
But . . .
When people think about the Holocaust and Jewish refugees during WWII, they rarely think about Shanghai. For a long time, I didn’t even know Shanghai was open to Jewish refugees at that time. Recently, I watched the documentary Survival in Shanghai. That documentary featured many Holocaust survivors who told of their escape to Shanghai.
Tara Abraham is the Executive Director of Glamour Magazine’s The Girl Project, which promotes education for girls around the world who are not in school due to war, poverty, child marriage, and gender-based violence. Ms. Abraham traveled to Jordan in January 2018, to the Za’atari and Azraq refugee camps, as a part of the UNICEF USA delegation.
Originally published in Stone Soup Magazine, September/October 1994
Special thanks to Sheila Crane, who taught in Emil's school in Rundu, for sending us his work.
First published on the cover of Stone Soup Magazine, March/April 1993
"Divided Island," by Sofia Kakoulli, age 11, of Cyprus, is part of the Children's Art Foundation's permanent collection. Sofia was a student of A. Pavlou at the Ergates-Nicosia School when she made her painting. It was donated to the Children's Art Foundation by the Greek-Cypriot government.
I live in Vietnam. I went to school in Saigon. I has one cat. I has four brother, no sister. My mother selling in her own store. My father was working for C.I.A. before 1975. After 1975 my father stop working for C.I.A.
One night at eight o'clock in August 30, 1978, the Viet Cong come and caught my father to put in the jail. Because my father work for C.I.A. At 1979 my dad is dead.
I was born on October 31, 1972 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I was very young when my country was in trouble in 1975.
In 1975, the Khmer Rouge (the Communist leaders) came into town. They sent us and the other people out of town to other places to work on the rice fields. My family had to walk fifteen days to the new place. We took only things with us like clothes and so on.
I have been through an experience that I will never forget. When I was about six years old, my family and I escaped looking for freedom in America, because the Viet Cong took over my country. The country is Viet Nam.
The first time we escaped we didn't make it.
I live in Vietnam. I go to school in Vietnam. I have three pigs and one dog, but the dog is dead. My mother she was sad. My mother my father my sister is go to work. Me and my younger sister we stay home. Everybody is go to work. We has a restaurant in Vietnam. So my family they work there.
In Vietnam is very awful so we leave.