:25:03
A week or two after that...
:25:04
...my parents decided my sister couId go.
:25:07
Now both of us wouId go.
:25:13
That must have been very hard.
:25:15
That wouId have been hard to decide
that we wouId both go.
:25:20
We had about a fortnight before we left.
:25:22
lnto that fortnight,
both Mother and Father...
:25:26
...were trying to give their instructions
and guidance...
:25:30
...that they hoped
to have their whole lives to give.
:25:37
My bar mitzvah was
a month after ´´Crystal Night. ´´
:25:42
lt was held in an attic.
:25:44
My father was not there,
he was still in a concentration camp.
:25:49
lt was just my mother.
:25:51
l felt terrible.
:25:53
There was no ceIebration afterwards.
There was nothing.
:25:59
You read your part from the Torah, and...
:26:01
...you did your haftorah
and you were finished.
:26:05
And we were Iucky that a minyan...
:26:09
...showed up aItogether.
:26:14
l certainly felt...
:26:16
...that the sooner we left Germany...
:26:18
...the better off we would be.
:26:21
My housemother wrote...
:26:24
...to Baron James de Rothschild...
:26:27
...asking if he would take...
:26:29
...24 of her boys...
:26:32
...her husband, herself...
:26:34
...and her two daughters.
:26:37
And he wrote back in January that...
:26:40
...he wouId.
:26:53
We thought of England...
:26:55
...as a land of lords and ladies because...
:26:57
...of the King and Queen,
and the two little princesses...