Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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...you did your haftorah
and you were finished.

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And we were Iucky that a minyan...
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...showed up aItogether.
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l certainly felt...
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...that the sooner we left Germany...
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...the better off we would be.
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My housemother wrote...
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...to Baron James de Rothschild...
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...asking if he would take...
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...24 of her boys...
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...her husband, herself...
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...and her two daughters.
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And he wrote back in January that...
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...he wouId.
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We thought of England...
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...as a land of lords and ladies because...
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...of the King and Queen,
and the two little princesses...

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...appealed to us very much.
We saw their pictures in the newspapers.

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The coronation with their ermine clothes
and crowns on their heads.

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And we reaIIy thought that in EngIand
that´s how peopIe dressed.

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Perhaps not every day,
but sometimes on Sundays.

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So that was our expectation of EngIand.
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I was toId this was the best thing
that couId happen, and I was so Iucky...

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...because everybody around me
was trying to find pIaces...

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...for their chiIdren.
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And, suddenIy, out of the bIue...
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...I had a chance to come to EngIand.
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How lucky can l be?
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My parents said
l´d be able to go back to school...

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...l will learn another language...
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...l will live in London,
l will be able to travel on the subway....

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And painted a beautiful picture.
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And added, again and again:
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´´And we´ll follow soon. ´´

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