Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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...to get my father to move,
who was impassive.

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So I reaIIy did make up my mind
that I wouId be as tough as naiIs.

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Nothing wouId hurt me.
I wouId have no emotions.

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And it carried me through
for about six or seven years.

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l got a scholarship to a grammar school.
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People were saying to me,
partly in jealousy:

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´´You know, they are snobs
in these schools and they´re anti-Semites.

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´´You gotta watch yourself.
They´re gonna take it out on you. ´´

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And l went to school.
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I had a schooI tie, I guess...
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...or a bIazer.
I was just entering a new worId.

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The sun was shining.
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I went to schooI, and a feIIow came up
to me and said, "´Who are you?"´

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And I just knocked him down.
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There was no doubt a cost...
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...trying to be good aII the time
and keeping my anger in.

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Only once did it slip.
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One day John and l
were having breakfast...

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...and there was some silly argument
over who got the marmalade first.

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And Kurt threw a knife.
That was the onIy time he was naughty.

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John had a IittIe wound here,
which was near his eye. It wasn´t nice.

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Dr. Rose, who was our friend,
and Iived a few doors down...

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...he came in and he was furious.
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"´You shouIdn´t have taken this chiId in."´
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lt terrified the entire family and me, too.
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Since then l´ve been somewhat afraid
of my possibility of letting go to anger.

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The other signs
that l had a lot inside me was that...

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...l always had some intestinal problems...
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...untiI I went into the army, and then I had
the most terribIe food and feIt fine.

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I have an anaIogy for this:
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When aII of us
have had the experience of finding...

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...a bird with a broken wing...
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...and you pick up this bird
and you hoId it in your hand...

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...and you think it´s going to sit there,
quietIy, sweetIy...


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