Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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...in a cIoak of Iead or iron...
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...and it had been taken from you.
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It was a wonderfuI feeIing of freedom.
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We started to smile.
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l don´t think any of them
had smiled for a long time.

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lt was wonderful.
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Then the train went on
to Hoek van Holland.

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We got onto the boat...
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...which took us to Harwich.
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lt was an unpleasant trip because...
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...the EngIish ChanneI...
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...is one of the worst pIaces
in wintertime to cross.

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We had small children
and people got seasick.

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lt was some how-do-you-do.
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l have a very vivid memory of waking up...
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...and seeing the sea for the first time,
with the sunrise on it...

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...and thinking how beautifuI it was.
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lt was only the British Channel...
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...but it seemed
a long way from home in 1939.

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And so, it was a mixture...
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...of eIation because we saw something
so beautifuI, and saw the sea, whiIe this...

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...fear within me, which never Ieft me
for those six years, of:

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"´What´s going to happen...
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"´...at home?"´
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Refugees from terror.
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The first boatload from Nazi Germany.

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