Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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:07:04
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...
:07:16
...six or seven boys came,
called me ´´Jew bastard´´...

:07:20
...and then attacked me and threw me
through a plate-glass window.

:07:25
I was cut severeIy...
:07:27
...and I had to go
to the hospitaI for stitches.

:07:34
I didn´t want to go
to the schooI there anymore.

:07:36
I just feIt that I was threatened constantIy.
:07:42
As Hitler strengthened his control...
:07:44
...he began looking for opportunities
to extend Germany´s power...

:07:48
...beyond its borders.
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ln March, 1938...
:07:52
...German troops entered Austria...
:07:54
...and without firing a single shot...
:07:56
...annexed the country to the Reich.
:08:02
The first thing that happens
when a disaster strikes...

:08:04
...is that nothing changes.
:08:06
You think there´s going to be
some great drama...

:08:09
...and you go to put your nightgown on...
:08:12
...and you say the Shema to your mother
and then you go to bed.

:08:15
And you think, "´Oh, this isn´t so terribIe."´
:08:21
But the next morning, my parents
took me downstairs into the street.

:08:26
The streets were full of new uniforms
l´d never seen.

:08:34
And the young people wore the red bands
around their arms with the swastika.

:08:39
l didn´t know what that meant.
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And they were stretching out their arms
in the Hitler salute.

:08:48
And there were flags everywhere,
these new red flags...

:08:52
...with the white circle
and the black swastika.

:08:58
My main sense
of something being wrong...


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