Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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1:06:00
...this demand on me...
1:06:02
...that I shouId bring my parents out.
1:06:06
From Dovercourt camp
l wrote a couple of letters...

1:06:09
...to the Refugee Committee in London.
1:06:13
l think they must have been moved
by a letter...

1:06:15
...from a child asking
to get her parents out of Vienna.

1:06:19
They did get my parents
a domestic service visa.

1:06:23
My parents appeared miraculously...
1:06:26
...in Liverpool on my 1 1th birthday.
1:06:31
I remember feeIing...
1:06:33
...that some terrific...
1:06:35
...weight that I had been carrying...
1:06:38
...and hadn´t known I had been carrying...
1:06:40
...was taken off my back.
1:06:48
Everything was being done
to get the papers...

1:06:51
...for my parents to come out...
1:06:53
...and war started.
1:06:54
And that was the end of that.
1:07:03
l just felt the world had come to an end.
1:07:07
Shattering, if l think about it.
1:07:10
Everything was buiIt...
1:07:12
...around this reunion...
1:07:14
...and my temporary stay in EngIand.
1:07:20
The fateful hour of 1 1:00 has struck...
1:07:22
...and the state of war once more exists
between Great Britain and Germany.

1:07:28
Only 25 minutes after war was declared
came the first air-raid warning.

1:07:40
Everything...
1:07:41
...we´d ever talked about or written about...
1:07:44
...or thought about, had all collapsed.
1:07:47
Everything had collapsed.
1:07:50
I think I cried for...
1:07:52
...not weeks, not months, I cried for years.
1:07:59
War ended all Kindertransports
and legal immigration...


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