:49:02
The snow came in through the cracks.
:49:06
We had this curious food. We had kippers.
:49:09
What IittIe Austrian-Jewish chiId
has ever heard of kippers?
:49:12
Here was this saIty,
shoe Ieather on our pIates...
:49:15
...and it had snow on it. It was interesting.
:49:18
While we were sitting...
:49:20
...around the stove,
always with our coats on...
:49:22
...and with our little gloves on...
:49:25
...groups of people would come...
:49:28
...to choose children
to take away with them.
:49:34
We called it the ´´Cattle Market´´...
:49:36
...because every Saturday and Sunday...
:49:38
...we were told to put on our best clothes...
:49:41
...and visitors used to come.
We feIt a bit Iike...
:49:44
...the monkeys in the zoo.
:49:45
We were being stared at and evaIuated.
:49:48
PeopIe were chosen, taken away
from the tabIes, and interviewed...
:49:52
...if you were suitable
to be taken to their families.
:49:55
Most families...
:49:57
...wanted little blue-eyed and blonde girls...
:50:00
...of about three to seven.
:50:02
Little boys were accepted as well.
:50:04
And the older children found it
a bit more difficult...
:50:07
...to find foster parents.
:50:08
Of course, by that time,
they hastiIy estabIished hosteIs...
:50:12
...to take a big infIux of the chiIdren...
:50:15
...who weren´t chosen quickIy,
because we had to be chosen fast.
:50:19
ln and out, the camp was filled.
:50:21
Every week,
another transport would arrive.
:50:27
l was writing a letter to my parents...
:50:29
...and one of these ladies in a fur coat...
:50:33
...bent down to me and asked me...
:50:35
...if l would like to come to Liverpool.
:50:38
I said, "´Yes, I wouId Iike
to come to LiverpooI."´
:50:41
She said to the other woman,
"´Oh, she speaks EngIish."´
:50:44
By speaking EngIish, I mean,
I couId understand:
:50:47
"´WouId you Iike to come to LiverpooI?"´
And I couId say "´Yes."´
:50:50
Then they said to me, "´Are you Orthodox?"´
:50:52
I said, "´Yes."´
:50:54
They wrote that down.
:50:56
lt was understood that l was going to go
to Liverpool the next day...