To Be An Israeli: The Fourth Book in the All My Love, Detrick series

by Roberta Kagan

  Bari Lynn nudged Marilyn. “Look at the one playing the guitar. He is so sexy. I put dibs on him…”

  “You’re right, he is really good looking, and his voice just melts me. Can you see his name tag?”

  “Yeah. It looks like it says, Ido.”

  “Ido?” Marilyn asked.

  “It’s an Israeli name, I guess,” Bari Lynn said. “Well, he is just too much with those dark eyes and that deep voice. Hell, I’m finally away from my mother, and I can do whatever I want. So I don’t care what his name is. I’ve decided right here and now, whatever it takes; he’s gonna be mine, my first guy…”

  “You mean the first guy you do it with? Really, Bari? You’re gonna sleep with him?”

  “Yep…” Bari Lynn said. “I am.”

  “Oh Bari, are you sure?”

  “Yep, what better time and place to lose it? I mean, I’m far away from my mom. I feel bold, I feel confident. Plus, we’re in a different country, and nobody knows me here. I can be whoever I want to be.” She giggled “I feel like I am ready to spread my wings and fly.” Marilyn laughed, too. Then Bari said, “It just feels so good to have finally escaped from my mom’s clutches…finally.”

  Both girls looked at each other and smiled.

  A male voice came over the loudspeaker. He was saying something in Hebrew. Everyone at the Ben Gurion Airport seemed to come to a complete halt. If an outsider had been watching, they would have thought every person in the entire building was playing the childhood game of freeze frame. But of course, this was no game.

  Bari looked at Marilyn and grabbed her hand. The old childhood fears that had been instilled in Bari came rising from her gut like the lava of a volcano. The words of warning she’d grown up hearing from her mother blasted in her mind. She was once again reminded of the dangers that she’d been taught lurked around every corner. “What did he say?” Bari asked Marilyn. Bari’s body was trembling.

  “I have no idea. I don’t speak Hebrew well enough to understand.” Marilyn squeezed Bari’s hand.

  Then, the man on the loudspeaker repeated his words, this time in English:

  “Attention, your attention, please. We would like to inform you that the notorious Nazi, John Demjanjuk, who was also known as “Ivan the Terrible” at the Treblinka Concentration Camp where he committed crimes against humanity, has just arrived in Israel. At this moment, he is being escorted to prison. He will stand trial here in our Jewish homeland for the atrocities he committed against the Jews and many other innocent people. It has been a long time that he has been able to live as a free man, but justice will finally be done… Shalom.”

  Across the aisle, two casually dressed non-distinct males stood huddled together against the wall of the building. They were diagonal to the walkway where the group of American young adults who had just arrived from Chicago was now surrounding the members of the IDF. These two men had made sure that they were hidden by the crowds of people from the view of the Israeli soldiers.

  “That’s them. They’re here,” one of the men said to the other.

  “Yes, I know. I read the sign. It said, ‘Welcome Congregation Beth Israel.’ It was written in English, of course.”

  “Of course, and your English is impeccable, due to that Harvard education you got in the United States.” The first man whispered to the other so that he could not be heard by any passersby.

  “Yes, and while I studied in America I had the opportunity to meet and get to know some of the people. It amazed me to find out just how naïve and trusting the American’s are, especially the young ones.”

  Both men barked a laugh in unison.

  “What an opportunity has fallen right into our laps. Just look over there: an entire group of Jewish–American teenagers and young adults right here in Israel. We should take two girls. Israel may not negotiate with us, but they will have to bend to American pressure. This is perfect!

  Because they are young, Jewish–Americans, whatever happens to them will attract media attention in every country. Americans have weak stomachs when it comes to their women. We need that kind of strong attention to make our point. Remember how the U.S. condemned the Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear reactor and how they have not been pleased with them during the Lebanese War? More than once Israel has been rebuked for using weapons the Americans gave them for defensive purposes only, to aggressively attack Arabs. Even if we fail and have to kill the girls, it will still help our cause. It will drive a wedge between Israel and America. These stupid children will help us to make the entire world shake with fear…”

  MORE BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

  YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE

  A Novel of the Holocaust

  Book Two in the All My Love, Detrick Series

  In 1935, the Nazis established a program called “The Lebensborn.” Their agenda, to genetically engineer perfect Aryan children. These children were to be the new master race, once Hitler had cleared all undesirable elements out of Europe. Within a year the first institution was built.

  A golden child is engineered to become a perfect specimen of Hitler’s master race. But plans can change. Alliances can be broken. Love and trust can be destroyed in an instant when people are not what they seem. In a time when the dark evil forces of the third Reich hung like a black umbrella of doom over Europe a little girl will be forced into a world that is spiraling out of control a world where the very people sworn to protect her cannot be trusted.

  THE PROMISED LAND

  From Nazi Germany to Israel

  Book Three in the All My Love, Detrick Series

  The Holocaust robbed Zofia Weiss of all she holds dear. The Secret State Police have confiscated her home, killed her friends, and imprisoned the man she loves. After searching through displaced persons camps and finding nothing, Zofia is sure that her lover is dead. With only her life, a dream, and a terrifying secret, Zofia illegally boards The Exodus, bound for Palestine.

  Along with a group of emaciated Jewish survivors, Zofia sets out to find the Promised Land. Despite the renewed sense of hope, Zofia lives in constant fear since the one person who knows her dark secret is a sadistic SS officer with the power to ruin her life and the life of an innocent, Lebensborn child.

  When the Nuremburg trials convict the SS Officer of crimes against humanity, Zofia believes she is finally safe and does her best to raise the beautiful girl entrusted to her care. As the child becomes a woman in her own right, can she find true love and belonging in a post-war society, or will the secrets of her heritage tear apart the only family she’s ever known?

  To Be AN ISRAELI

  Book Four in the All My Love, Detrick Series

  Available 2016

  Elan Amsel understands what it means to be an Israeli. He’s sacrificed the woman he loved, his marriage, and his life for Israel. When Israel went to war and Elan was summoned in the middle of the night he did not hesitate to defend his country. Even though he knew, he would pay a terrible price for his decision. Elan is not a perfect man by any means. He can be cruel. He can be stubborn and self-righteous. But he is brave, and he loves more deeply than he will ever admit. This is his story.

  However, it is not only his story; it is also an account of the lives of the women who loved him. Katja, the girl who he cherished but could never marry, who would haunt him forever. Janice, the spoiled American that he wed to fill a void, who would keep a secret from him that would one day shatter him. And…Nina, the beautiful Mossad agent who Elan longed to protect, but knew that he could not.

  “To Be An Israeli” spans from the beginning of the Six-Day War in 1967 through 1986 when a group of American tourists are on their way to visit their Jewish homeland.

  This book is a saga of a people who to this day live under the constant threat of war and terrorism. It is the story of a nation built on the blood of her people, a people who understand that if Israel is to survive they must put Israel first. These are the Israelis.

  THE VOYAGE:

  A Historical Novel Se
t during the Holocaust

  Inspired by true events.

  On May 13th 1939, five strangers boarded the MS St. Louis, promised a future of safety away from Nazi Germany and Hitler’s third Reich unbeknownst to them they were about to embark upon a voyage built on secrets, lies, and treachery. Sacrifice, love, life, and death hung in the balance as each fought against fate but the voyage was just the beginning.

  MICHAL’S DESTINY

  Siberia 1919

  In a Jewish settlement a young woman is about to embark upon her destiny. Her father has arranged a marriage for her, and she must comply with his wishes. She has never seen her future husband, and she knows nothing about him. Michal’s destiny lies in the hands of fate. On the night of her wedding, she is terrified, but her mother assures her that she will be all right. Her mother explains that it is her duty to be a good wife, to give her husband children and always to obey him. However, although her mother and her mother’s mother before her had lived this way, this was not to be Michal’s destiny.

  Terrible circumstances would force Michal to leave her home and travel to the city of Berlin during the Weimar period where she would see and experience things she could never have imagined. She was a sheltered religious girl lost and afraid trying to survive in a world filled with contrasts. Weimar Berlin was a time and place when art and culture were exploding, but it was also a time of depravity and perversions. Then 14 years after that young girl had stood under the canopy and said “I do” to a perfect stranger, the tides for Michal finally began to turn, and she felt as if her feet were on the ground and she’d found her way. But little did she know that the year was 1933. Michal was still living in Berlin, And Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.

  A FLICKER OF LIGHT

  Hitler’s Master Plan…

  The year is 1943… The forests of Munich are crawling with danger under the rule of “The Third Reich,” but in order to save the life of her unborn child Petra Jorgenson must escape from the Lebensborn Institute. Alone, seven months pregnant, and penniless avoiding the watchful eyes of the armed guards in the overhead tower, she waits until the dead of night. Then Petra climbs under the flesh shredding barbed wire surrounding the institute and at the risk of being captured and murdered, she runs headlong into the terrifying desolate woods.

  Even during one of the darkest periods in the history of mankind, when horrific acts of cruelty became commonplace and Germany seemed to have gone crazy following the direction of a madman, unexpected heroes came to light. And although there were those who would try to destroy it, true love would prevail. Here, in this lost land ruled by human monsters, Petra will learn that even when one faces what appears to be the end of the world if one looks hard enough one will find that there is always “A Flicker Of Light.”

  THE HEART OF A GYPSY

  If you liked “Inglourious Basterds,” Pulp Fiction,” “Django Unchained,” You’ll love “The Heart of a Gypsy!”

  During the Nazi occupation, bands of freedom fighters roamed the forests of Eastern Europe. They hid, while waging their own private war against Hitler’s tyrannical and murderous reign. Among these Resistance Fighters, there were several groups of Romany people (gypsies).

  The Heart of a Gypsy is a spellbinding love story. It is a tale of a man with remarkable courage and the woman who loved him more than life itself. This historical novel is filled with romance, and spiced with the beauty of the Gypsy culture.

  Within these pages lies a tale of a people who would rather die, than surrender their freedom. Come, enter into a little known world, where only a few have traveled before… The world of the Romany.

  If you enjoy romance, secret magical traditions, and riveting action….you will love “The Heart of A Gypsy.”

  Please be forewarned that this book contains explicit scenes of a sexual nature.

  A NAZI ON TRIAL IN GOD’S COURT

  This is a very short story. It is 1,235 words Himmler; Hitler's right hand man has committed suicide to escape persecution after the fall of the Third Reich. What he doesn't realize is he must now face a higher court. God's court. In this story he will meet Jesus and be tried in heaven for crimes against humanity and the final judgment may surprise you.