Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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...and the butIer,
who was about 10-foot-6...

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...came out ...
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...and said to me:
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"´What do you want?"´
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I said,
"´I want to speak to Baron RothschiId."´

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He said, "´Wait here."´
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I waited.
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A coupIe of minutes Iater he says:
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"´FoIIow me."´
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l said to him, ´´Baron Rothschild...
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´´...my father´s cousin will give him...
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´´...and my mother a visa...
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´´...provided he has a working permit. ´´
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Without hesitation...
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...he said to me,
"´WouId he work on a chicken farm?"´

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I said, "´He´II do anything."´
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He went to a notary...
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...and made out a working permit
for my parents.

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The family that chose me
were the only people...

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...l could rely on to give...
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...a visa for my IittIe sister.
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She was a beautifuI IittIe girI.
They had no chiIdren.

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I showed them the photograph of Inge...
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...and they seemed to like her very much.
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But l realized one thing:
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Uncle Billy...
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...hated red hair.
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UncIe BiIIy...
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...was paying maintenance
for a red-haired chiId, not his...

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...by his first wife.
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WeII, say no more.
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Inge was a bright redhead.
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The question of hair color never arose
because l had brown hair.

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One day he said to me quite idly:
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´´What color hair does your sister have?´´
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l said, ´´Oh, like mine. ´´
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No more was said.
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And they gave permission for her...
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...to come and they wouId take her in.
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l went very happily to England.
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lt was an adventure, you know,
to go abroad, to go on the train.


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