Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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...was the haste with which my parents
got me back into the house.

:09:13
Suddenly l couldn´t go
to my normal school anymore.

:09:16
l was sent off to a makeshift school...
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...at the end of the tramline.
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And I did it aIone, even at age 7.
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I went to the end of the Iine, and I wouId
just waIk on untiI I came to this house.

:09:31
Word got back to my parents that while
on the tram, l was a very talkative boy.

:09:35
l told them all the bad things
that Herr Hitler was doing.

:09:39
I thought that "´Herr"´ was his first name,
of course.

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And word got back to my parents
that maybe...

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...I shouIdn´t be traveIing aIone.
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And my father then came with me.
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He didn´t say much, he hardIy ever did...
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...but he Iet it be known...
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...that it wasn´t wise to go around
saying bad things about HitIer.

:10:05
ln the weeks following
the annexation of Austria...

:10:08
...Nazi authorities had enacted
all the anti-Jewish laws...

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...it had taken Hitler five years
to put into place in Germany.

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For anyone coming from Vienna,
it was very dramatic.

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The reality of it struck me
when my parents talked about...

:10:28
...giving up the apartment,
that we had to Ieave.

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That was something,
you know, the bottom faIIs out.

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Everything faIIs out of you.
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This is all l knew...
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...and we had to give it up,
we had to leave.

:10:42
That was probably the biggest blow l had.
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Just the idea...
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...it´II aII end the way it is.
:10:58
My mother was an activist.

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