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l went to the Gemeinde.
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There was this wonderful woman
who knew me there.
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She said,
"´Pascha, what are you doing here?
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"´Where´s your mother?"´
I said, "´My mother´s been deported."´
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And she said to me,
"´There´s something happening now.
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´´l think you should get onto it. ´´
lt was the Kindertransport.
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She said, "´You´d better register
immediateIy because you´re by yourseIf.
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"´What wiII you do?"´
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So I said, "´Okay. I´II go to EngIand."´
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Just Iike matter of fact,
as if it was nothing.
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ln hindsight...
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...l think my sister and l...
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...we owe it to my father´s death...
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...that we have survived...
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...because they seIected...
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...chiIdren...
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...who had probIems...
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...who´d Iost parents...
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...or whose parents
couId no Ionger Iook after them...
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...to go on the Kindertransport.
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Mother came home
and said that she´d enrolled us.
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About a fortnight later...
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...my parents were toId that I couId go.
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A week or two after that...
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...my parents decided my sister couId go.
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Now both of us wouId go.
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That must have been very hard.
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That wouId have been hard to decide
that we wouId both go.
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We had about a fortnight before we left.
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lnto that fortnight,
both Mother and Father...
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...were trying to give their instructions
and guidance...
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...that they hoped
to have their whole lives to give.
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My bar mitzvah was
a month after ´´Crystal Night. ´´
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lt was held in an attic.
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My father was not there,
he was still in a concentration camp.
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lt was just my mother.
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l felt terrible.
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There was no ceIebration afterwards.
There was nothing.
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You read your part from the Torah, and...