【每天积累一点点】Humans of New York

“My mother was sixteen when the war came to St. Petersburg. She was the oldest of four children, so her parents chose to evacuate her first. She was supposed to find a job and the rest of the family would follow. She was evacuated with a factory. The workers were on one boat and the machinery was on the other. The boat with the machinery was bombed and sank to the bottom of the river. My mother ended up in a city thousands of miles away. Sometimes there was such little food that she survived on grass. But everyone who stayed behind in the city died. Her entire family was killed in one night. Growing up, she always told us about St. Petersburg. She hung paintings of the city all over our house. So we wanted to bring her back here before she died. When we arrived in the city, we went straight to visit her old house. Only the foundation was left. But when we got off at the subway stop, the strangest thing happened. Two children came running toward us. Their mother was calling after them: ‘Sonya and Misha!’ They had the same names as me and my brother. It was as if they were greeting us.”(St. Petersburg, Russia)

“圣彼得堡发生战争的时候我母亲刚16岁。她是家里四个孩子中最大的一个，因此她的服务打算让她先撤离。希望她先找到工作然后其他家人随后再投奔她。她和一个工厂一起撤离，工人们乘坐一艘船，那些机器就盛放在另一艘船上。后来盛放机器的船被轰炸了并且沉到了河底。我母亲最后来到了1000英里外的一个城市。有时候草地上会有很少的食物，因此我母亲活了下来。但是这个城市的其他人都死光了。她的家人一夜之间被全部杀害。长大后，她总是和我们讲圣彼得堡的故事。在我们家里挂满了这个城市的图片。因此，我们希望能在她去世前带她回到这里，到达这里后，我们首先去看了她的老房子。但是房子所剩无几。但是，当我们在地铁站下车的时候，奇怪的事情发生了。两个孩子朝我们跑来，他们的妈妈在后面喊他们‘Sonya’和‘Misha’！他们的名字和我与弟弟的名字相同。就好像她们在和我们打招呼一样。”（俄罗斯圣彼得堡）