Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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When l arrived in England...
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...l made it my priority...
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...to try and find homes for people...
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...because l felt people didn´t know...
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...how desperate it was in Germany.
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My biggest probIem
was to try and get my parents out.

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That was difficult,
because it was either finding them a job...

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...and bearing in mind my father´s age...
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...or getting this €100 guarantee...
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...which was just nowhere to be seen.
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l proceeded...
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...to find large houses...
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...and knock at the door to find out...
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...whether l could get them a job.
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My mother as a cook or bottle washer.
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My father as a gardener.
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Anything just to get them out.
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Sometimes l knocked at the door
and l burst into tears.

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Sometimes l knocked at the door,
and with my very poor English...

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...tried to explain what it was all about...
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...who I was, what I wanted,
what I needed: heIp.

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I did find someone...
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...and it was just...
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...Iike an unbeIievabIe dream come true.
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My father had a first cousin...
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...in London.
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Every weekend l took the train
into London...

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...and bombarded him.
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l said, ´´Uncle Paul...
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"´...you´ve got to get my parents
out of Germany."´

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He said, "´I can´t do it."´
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After me being so...
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...insistent he finally said:
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"´I´II give him an affidavit
if he has a working permit."´

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l went back to the Rothschild estate...
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...knocked on the door...

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