http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/13/holocaust-survivors-tell_n_134093.htmlHerman and Roma Rosenblat pose for a photo in their North Miami Beach, Fla. home, Sept. 25, 2008 as they talk about "Angel Girl," the book written by Laurie Friedman, about the beginning of their relationship during the Holocaust. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — In the beginning, there was a boy, a girl and an apple.
He was a teenager in a concentration camp in Nazi-controlled Germany. She was a bit younger, living free in the village, her family posing as Christians. Their eyes met through a barbed-wire fence and she wondered what she could do for this handsome young man.
She was carrying apples, and decided to throw one over the fence. He caught it and ran away toward the barracks. And so it began.
As they tell it, they returned the following day and she tossed an apple again. And each day after that, for months, the routine continued. She threw, he caught, and both scurried away.
They never knew one another's name, never uttered a single word, so fearful they'd be spotted by a guard. Until one day he came to the fence and told her he wouldn't be back.
"I won't see you anymore," she said. "Right, right. Don't come around anymore," he answered.
And so their brief and innocent tryst came to an end. Or so they thought.
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