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There we stood, in our groups of fifty,
I think it was...
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...and there was my mother and my father.
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My mother kept up...
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...a conversation with me
as if this was an ordinary and interesting...
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...thing that was happening.
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But I remember that she wore...
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...a pony fur with a fox coIIar...
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...and her face was inside the fox coIIar.
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l remember that although...
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...her speech was
as if everything was ordinary...
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...her face, l remember, was hot.
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lt was red and hot.
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Every parent promised their child:
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´´We will soon come and follow. ´´
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How otherwise did the parents...
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...get the little children onto the trains.
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"´Give us a few weeks, when things...
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"´...wiII either bIow over
and you´II come back again...
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"´...or we´II come join you."´
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That was a promise
every parent made to their chiId.
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There came the time to say to the parents:
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"´You cannot go to the pIatform.
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"´The poIice wiII not aIIow it.
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"´You have to say good-bye here."´
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So I ascended a chair there...
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...and addressed the peopIe.
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Where I got the courage to do that,
I don´t know.
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But l told the parents:
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´´This is your last good-bye. ´´
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They didn´t want the German public
to know what was going on...
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...because they had experiences...
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...of parents weeping and...
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...fainting at the platform.
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So we had to say good-bye...
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...groups had to say good-bye,
in an anteroom.
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The scenes were pretty horrendous.
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When my sister and brother left...
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...all the other parents were crying bitterly.
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I was so afraid.
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I didn´t want my mother to cry...
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...because she was a very strong person.
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l thought, ´´lf she cries...