Present day... Kenny sighed deeply again looking at Kyles diary that was in the glass case and next to it Stans diary that he donated to the museum a few years ago and he fell quiet for a while if thinking back and a sad look came to his face
I let him down badly and I let his family down but I was too scared to protect him I will never forgive myself for what happend to him Stan how you can be my friend is beyond me I don't deseirve your friendship I let Kyle down Kenny sighed again
No Kenny it's not your fault you cared for Kyle look it even said so in the diary you were a comfort to him in times of need he trusted you he even loved you I think and you made him happy with the compassion you showed him the extra food the socks you did everything you could and Kyle really appreciated that I read that diary from page to page after you gave me it and I could tell Kyle was happy in his style of handwriting so please Kenny don't blame yourself you did everything you could Stan said patting Kennys arm I know I really tried to I was very fond of him I wish we could have met in different times be his friend but I did try my best and maybe my best wasent good enough and what happend still haunts me to this day though it was decades ago I remeber it all if it was Yestarday I watched that boy be destroyed and I did nothing to help him also was it that boy Tucker who ratted on Kyle did you ever find out asked Kenny looking at Stan who shook his head
Well we think it was him he hated Kyle and he often threatend to report him but it was never proven it was Craig Tucker that did it about 4 or 5 months after Kyle was arrested and taken away Tuckers house took a direct hit his entire family killed apart from Ruby and stripe his guinea pig Ruby was staying elsewhere away from the war and never returned some say she later moved to the UK and Stripe the guinea pig survived thanks to her cage that protected her and the day after the bombing Butters and I went to look at the rubble yeah we had a morbid fascination at looking at bombed houses weird I know but we seen stripe moving about the rubble shed got out so I went over and grabbed her and I took her home and kept her and dad got her a new cage and that Stripe died peacefully in her sleep 4 years later but were are certain it was Craig Tucker that ratted on Kyle cos as I said he hated Kyle and he'd often fight with him even coming to blows when we were at school and of course the school took Craig's side cos Craig was Christian he was seen as the good boy the innicont victiam and big evil Kyle the filthy Kyke they called him when really it was Craig who was the trouble maker Stan sighed as he felt Kenny rub his back and both boys fell silent remebering their friend
I still really had no idea of what went on in these camps the horror that those poor pepole sufferd I had no idea they even excisted and it was later on I found out that Kyle had been sent to one I always thought that Kyle had been sent back to Isreal like all the other Jews and I imagined him being happy their having his Bar Mitzvah and with all his family around him and hoping that one day he'd come back and find me but it was after the war when the Russians came and took us to see these camps for ourselfs that's when the horror really hit me and looking around the camps and seeing the survivors made me feel sick and worse still I couldn't find Kyle I searched for him everywhere talking to other survivors but no one had seen him and that's when I feared the worst and I heard about his family too being killed it broke my heart the Broflovskis were really nice pepole very kind warm pepole too and so were the others that stayed with them it's a real tradegy but I was so damn determend to serch for Kyle then I heard that he was last seen on the death march and after that I lost all hope as iv seen old films and photos of prisnors on those death marches and what happens to them and they don't escape and the thought of Kyle lying in a mass unmarked grave in the middle of nowhere well started Stan but stopped as he let out a deep sob and tears rolled down his cheeks and Kenny pulled him into a hug muttering I know Stan I know and I am so so sorry
Stan didn't say anything as he choked back another sob
I just wish I could have done more to have saved him you know said Kenny as Stan nodded
Kenny please don't punish yourself more it wasent your fault as I said it was Cartmans he hurt Kyle and did all those bad things to him your innicont and you didn't really know about the death march you found out after Kyle left so you arnt responsible Stan said now rubbing Kennys back as a tear rolled down his cheek and both boys glanced at the diary again falling silent not noticing that they were about to be joined by a 3rd person who cut their thoughts off by yelling God their running low on toilet tissue okay guys did I miss anything and both Stan and Kenny turned round to see a familler figure coming out the toilets
It was an elderly man ages with them and he had white hair that once was a vibrant red and still had faint shades of red through it and it was in a Afro style
No not really Kyle oh just thinking back and looking at your old diary that one you wrote many years ago and you pinched Nazi paper for smiled Kenny making Kyle laugh a little as he came over
OMG I often wonderd what happend to that old diary of mine so full of memories and when I wrote them I was just a kid really seems like a lifetime ago Kyle sighed glancing at the diary
It was I think we were so young back then and you thought keeping a diary was for girls I remeber the look on your face when you got it to this day Stan laughed a bit
Yeah I thought diaries were for girls I wanted some cool boys present and ended up with a diary little did I think it play a part in history who'd think some pre teens ramblings would make history okay I know I did a record of the war and that but most of it was about privet stuff that only I was ment to read like my feelings about growing up and that even worring about puberty and arguing with my family that's no intrest to pepole as im sure everyone experiences that Kyle said
Well maybe that part wasent so interesting but you recorded importent events and also the holocaust and first hand experiences of the camps the world wants to know about that Stan said and that's how my diary has pepole intrested too as I record the events leading up to it and having a Jew as a friend as that was forbidden back then Stan added
Stans right Kyle the world wants to know about these things and your diaries hold a lot of intrest and Stan donated the diary thinking you were dead we searched years for you and when I heard that you escaped that death march and was alive somewhere I couldn't beleive it Kenny said smilling
Yeah Kyle how the hell did you manage to escape that death march I believed you were dead infact we both did Kenny and I Stan said
Well it was hard and yeah by rights I should be dead now but somehow I overheard a few of the inmates say we're not going to any new camps this is a fucking death march were gonna be killed and were heading in the direction of the woods which was true
When we left the camp we walked for ages and ages I'd say maybe for about a week even and walked through the night they did give us dry bread and water to keep us walking and it was in all weathers and this guy said their gonna take us into the woods and shoot us I heard of this happaning so hearing that I knew I had to escape and also their was about 100 of us we did loose a few they collapsed and died so the others steped over them but the guards shot them to make sure they weren't faking it so that was idea out the window I had to sneak away unseen for this to work so somehow by luck I managed to sneak away unseen I don't know how I did it and still don't know I managed to do it but I did luck or my family helping me from the other side maybe so I layed low in a ditch covering myself in snow and I almost froze to death as I had to lie their for sometime till they all passed by and when I knew it was safe I desided to walk to a safe place where they wouldn't find me and I was very lucky as after a week I found a farm house and the owners took me in also they started to recede me small bit at a time till I felt stronger like the refeeding programs they had and they gave me clothes so I ditched my uniform God knows where that is now and sleeping in a warm proper bed and having a bed to myself and a nice hot bath was heaven but at first I was terrified incase they'd report me and I'd be taken Way by the Nazies as I'd be shot but they didn't they offers to let me stay as long as I needed to but about April I moved on again and really went from place to place staying in run down farm houses and that living off the land then I heard the war was over I found out in July had no idea so I knew that no one could harm me and I'd be safe so I took myself to a hospital where I got refed properly and I started gaining wight again and I stayed their for quite a few months till I was fully recoverd and by now my hair and eyebrows had all grown back and I now looked normal only my tattoo told pepole that I'd been in the camps
But I did try and track you both down but no one knew as you weren't prisnors also I learnt that Ethan died too Typhus took him he was in another camp but Francis survived and I met up with him again but he died 11 years ago peacefully in his sleep and whist I was at the hospital I met this really nice American soilder who was helping out a GI called Token so a few years later I moved to America you know start a fresh new life new beginning and also I tracked family mebers their in New Jersey so I stayed with them for a while I finally had my Bar Mitzvah but it was till I got my own place found my feet and got a job and became an American citerzen so now I have a US passport I'm a retired lawer now like my father wanted me to be then I seen a program on tv quite a few years ago about what they now call the Holocaust and too my shock Kenny was on it and that was when he was still on triel at the time back in Nuremberge and he was talking about the prisnors he helped they showed a video of him in the dock so I. flew to Nuremberge as I wanted to give evicdance in Kennys favour and also suprise him as he properly thought I was dead and I did and I told them about Cartman too I told them everything and cartman got the death penalty so hes dead now Kyle said smiling
Yeah I thought I was seeing a ghost seeing Kyle turn up like that and he hadent changed since I first seen him just a bit older but he had gained weight his skin a healthy pink and his hair had grown back I was really stunned seeing Kyle again and he told me how he cheated death and it was thanks to Kyles evidance that got me off as he spoke highly off me so I walked free but I'd lost everything I had I was homeless as my family were killed in the bombings I had no job no money nothing and I knew I'd be living on the streets but Kyle said that I could go back to the states with him and we ended up moving I together we now live in a quiet small town called South park in Colorado we bought a house together as he got me a job and I became a good lawer as I said following in my fathers footsteps and the name Broflovski is yet again above another law company's door but as I said I'm retired now Kyle said as he took Kennys hand smiling
So when did you move to the states I lost touch with you up to 2 years ago asked Kenny
Oh it was in the 50s early 60s my parents wanted to start a new life try the American living and that's where I met my wife Wendy and we went on to get married and had 2 kids I called my son Kyle after you he's in Florida now with his family and our daughter she's in New York with her family and Wendy she's back home she's not very well this weather but really Kyle you should publish your diaries let the world know about what happend said Stan
Yeah I know that but thing is is the world really ready for another Holocaust diary theirs so many out their and I'm not just talking about Anne Franks diary and hers ended after she was arrested I kept mine going somehow oh maybe one day I'll get it published I don't want to take the limelight off young Anne Said Kyle
Thats true but it's a remarkable diary and it's a mirical how you survived I can't reall imagin what you went through and survived even though I seen one if those camps for myself and seen the hell you we're living in and the other prisnors and the gas chambers for myself it's a mirical you survived yet I have to admit myself I never thought anyone would be intrested in my diary nothing importent in that siad Stan sighing
Well in many ways it's linked to events leading up to the holocaust including the events of Kristallnacht you witnessed history Stan and the persicusian of the Jews and events leading up to the holocaust you were their when history and you wrote it down in your diary so yes pepole will be intrested in it and will be for many years to come peole will be looking at these diaries when we're no longer around Kyle said giving the diaries another glance and Kenny nodded before the 3 friends left to go outside and Kyle fingered a new star of David gold pendent bought for him by Kenny to replace the one that was taken away and then he glanced a little at the old faded tattoo on his arm the number 627425 that was still their yet it had faded a little over the years but it was still their and Kyle no longer felt ashamed by it if pepole asked him about it he told them his story like he'd done so many times before
Kyle looked around and up at the clear blue sky and the sun warmed his face as he held Kennys hand it was like a different world now no one cared about his beliefs or that he loved Kenny and he wasent afraid to hold Kennys hand in public yet he still had feelings for Stan as he was a very close friend Kyle glanced at a group of young Jewish kids entering the museum in their teens and he felt happy for them that they didn't live in his world having to hide away in fear they looked ages with him when he was arrested all those years ago
Kyle was a little lost in his thoughts when a large silver car drew up and a young blond man with bright green eyes pamped his car horn and turned down the music and stuck his head out the car window
Hey dad Kyle and dad Kenny are you guys ready to go then the man yelled
Kyle and Kenny had paid a woman to have a baby for them and they'd raise the child as their own so they now had a son but he knew about everything as he still had contact with his mom and everyone was okay about that
Oh sure son sorry I was miles away their Kyle said smiling at the man then smilled and spoke to another man who was in the car
Hi their Token so how are you then smiled Kyle as he and Kenny and Stan all pulled into the back seat smiling
Hey their guys I'm good so how are you and how is things in the museum sorry I couldn't go in with you as I had a doctors appointment said Token
Yeah it went good iv to give a talk to some school kids next week about the diaries and that but iv done it so many times I'm used to it said Kyle winding down the car window a bit and feeling the breeze blow through his hair and he took a deep breath yes it was so good to be alive and he felt Kennys warm hand hold his warm pink hand and Kyle sighed with happiness as he had fulfilled his promise and kept his word the world now knew about the horrors and millions of others like him sufferd and hopefullyit would never happan again so his family didn't die in vein he would educate the world about what happend and it would never happan again .
Well that's the end and a suprise ending Kyle lived after all that did happan pepol cheating death not many did it but they did watch out for next story called Going home mostly about Stan and Wendy