Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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l was overprotected because of...
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...the Hitler dangers outside the home.
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But very much loved in the home.
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My mother sitting on my father
for a cuddIe...

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...was an everyday occurrence.
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I had to join in,
or eIse I wouId have been jeaIous.

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He had to have both of us on his Iap.
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My father used to say:
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´´l´m too old to start again. ´´
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Although he spoke perfect English...
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...he felt he was just not young enough
to start in a new country.

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And the other sentence,
which was because...

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...his father and grandfather, and so on...
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...were born in Germany was:
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"´This has got to change.
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"´This madman, HitIer, can´t possibIy Iast."´
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l feared every day.
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I was most unhappy going to schooI.
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l was walking down the street...
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...six or seven boys came,
called me ´´Jew bastard´´...

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...and then attacked me and threw me
through a plate-glass window.

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I was cut severeIy...
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...and I had to go
to the hospitaI for stitches.

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I didn´t want to go
to the schooI there anymore.

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I just feIt that I was threatened constantIy.
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As Hitler strengthened his control...
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...he began looking for opportunities
to extend Germany´s power...

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...beyond its borders.
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ln March, 1938...
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...German troops entered Austria...
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...and without firing a single shot...
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...annexed the country to the Reich.

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