:17:04
Our schooI happened to be just opposite
on the street where the synagogue was.
:17:10
l was dragged out
with the stream of children.
:17:12
Everybody went to the playground...
:17:15
...to watch these flames.
:17:21
And suddenly somebody said:
:17:23
"´There´s a Jew!
Let´s throw her on the fire as weII! "´
:17:28
l don´t know how l got home.
l still don´t know today how l got home.
:17:32
And when I got home
my mother was absoIuteIy shocked.
:17:35
My father had been arrested.
:17:41
My father was quite an outspoken person.
:17:46
When they came to Buchenwald...
:17:47
...and they took away
all the men´s braces and shoelaces...
:17:51
...he protested and said,
´´You can´t treat these old people like this. ´´
:17:55
So they made an exampIe of him.
They beat him to death...
:17:59
...in front of everybody...
:18:01
...in order to instiII terror and obedience.
:18:08
They offered us my father´s ashes
in return for money...
:18:12
...and eventually the urn came.
:18:15
And we buried it in the Jewish cemetery.
:18:18
Of course, whether it was his ashes,
one never knows.
:18:22
We heard loud banging
on the door downstairs...
:18:26
...and so my aunt, my mother and l...
:18:28
...ran up into the attic.
:18:30
We were hiding
in an old wardrobe up there.
:18:35
And I do remember feeIing
as though I had spent my entire Iife...
:18:39
...in that wardrobe.
:18:41
And I aIso remember
whispering to my mother:
:18:44
"´I want to get out of here,
and not just out of this wardrobe...
:18:49
"´...I want to get out of Germany."´