Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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The German trains
had great big windows...

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...and my father pulled that
all the way down...

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...so l could be leaning out of the window.
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He hugged and kissed me.
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I couId see my father´s face getting...
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...whiter and whiter.
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l thought, ´´l only hope nothing
is going to happen to him. ´´

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He looked so terribly, terribly pale.
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My poor mother
was getting worse and worse.

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l couldn´t wait for the train to go because...
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...l didn´t want to remember that.
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The guy came...
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...and he waved the signal.
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When the train started to go...
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...my father says, "´PupeIa!
Let me hoId your hands! "´

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And I heId my hands and said,
"´I have to Iet go! I have to Iet go! "´

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"´No! I don´t want you to go!
I don´t want you to go! "´

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And we were aIready....
My father couIdn´t waIk very fast...

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...because he waIked with a cane.
We went a IittIe bit more...

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...and he took me by my hands...
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...and he puIIed me out of the window.
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And I feII.
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I couId have faIIen in-between...
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...the pIatform and the train.
There was onIy a smaII amount of space.

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I didn´t, but I got hurt and I was bIeeding...
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...and I was devastated.
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AbsoIuteIy devastated.
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And my father was in seventh heaven...
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...that he had his IittIe PupeIa,
his IittIe girI, back.

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The parting was terrible.
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That´s the one thing l have never...
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...forgotten in all my life.
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And she had been so controlled.
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She´d always been...
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...a sort of solid...
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...support to us.
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And suddenly she showed her feelings...
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...and it was terrifying, really terrifying.
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We saw this face...
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...which showed aII the hurt...
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...and agony she´d been through.

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