:54:02
Maybe I thought he was a Nazi...
:54:04
...but I was terrified of him.
:54:08
In fact, I was so terrified that I Iearned...
:54:11
...EngIish so quick
so I wouIdn´t have to see him again.
:54:15
Then six weeks Iater...
:54:17
...I wrote to my parents in EngIish:
:54:19
"´I no Ionger speak German."´
:54:22
I never have,
and I´ve never been abIe to re-Iearn it.
:54:27
He was very, very good.
:54:29
He liked the sweet things
and John liked the savory, but...
:54:33
...they got on very well together.
:54:36
But I noticed, weII, we knew every night...
:54:38
...when it was dark,
he´d come down the stairs...
:54:41
...and he´d see that the door was Iocked.
That was one thing I remember.
:54:52
My mother was in London,
so for me the separation...
:54:56
...was not as traumatic
because l was going to something.
:55:00
l came to the London station...
:55:02
...and she picked me up
and took me where she was working.
:55:05
Then I stayed in this very coId...
:55:09
...fancy house in EngIand...
:55:11
...where they were expIoiting
the European maids.
:55:15
And, of course,
if you´ve ever been the chiId of a maid...
:55:18
...you know maids
aren´t supposed to have chiIdren.
:55:21
They´re not weIcome. You can´t stay there.
:55:24
l don´t know how the decision was made,
but l was to be sent to Belfast...
:55:28
...to the Jewish refugee hostel in Belfast.
:55:31
When you see your life has been saved
and you´re brought into a hostel...
:55:35
...which is clean...
:55:37
...and there is food there...
:55:40
...and other children there,
how could you not be happy in that place?
:55:45
But, to me...
:55:46
...it smeIIed of orphanage,
which, in due course, it became.
:55:49
And orphanages...
:55:51
...those things frighten
every chiId out of its wits.
:55:53
I mean, CharIes Dickens...
:55:56
...to be in a workhouse, to be an orphan.