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...
1:08:03
...from Central Europe to England.
1:08:05
lt also ended regular mail
between the children and their parents.
1:08:10
The only way
they could now communicate...
1:08:12
...was by 25-word postcards
sent through the lnternational Red Cross.
1:08:21
The isolation came
when the letters ceased.
1:08:25
It was accepted
that you didn´t taIk about...
1:08:28
...what hurt you.
1:08:30
I couIdn´t speak Czech with anybody.
1:08:32
I didn´t want to teII my sister
how unhappy I was...
1:08:35
...because I feIt she was too young.
1:08:39
l wrote at that time in my diary:
1:08:41
´´l never dreamt
that one could be so lonely...
1:08:44
´´...and go on living...
1:08:46
´´...with this constant fear
for our loved ones.
1:08:50
´´The tears l shed at night
do not ease my pain...
1:08:53
´´...yet l was told that one feels better
after a good cry.
1:08:57
´´All l have is a swollen face...