Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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l remember all that day we sang songs.
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We ate the things
that our mothers had given us.

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When we got to the border...
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...it got very frightening because...
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...the train stopped at the last station...
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...before Holland.
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The big girIs were very frightened
and they scared us.

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They said, "´Don´t move."´
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You know what happens when you sit
and don´t move? You begin to trembIe...

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...if you tense yourseIf enough.
I remember that...

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...I was sitting there so tense
that I was vibrating.

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The Nazi border guard...
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...very officiously came around...
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...and made some of the children
open their suitcases.

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They shouted at us...
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...and threw their weight about.
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They were Iooking for
new things peopIe had.

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ChiIdren had new cIothes and things.
They didn´t Iike that.

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They gave the chiIdren a tough time.
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Children kept crying and crying.
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We were there quite a while.
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They took their time
and enjoyed doing what they did to us.

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Then suddenIy we were in HoIIand.

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