Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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...with its warm feathers, and be darIing.
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It´s not. It immediateIy tries...
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...to use its muscIes and it´s a very
uncomfortabIe thing to hoId in your hand...

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...because there´s this fIuttering.
What he wants is to get away.

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It may need you to hoId it and nurse it...
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...but what he wants
is to get the heck out of there.

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I think that´s what we were Iike.
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CertainIy, that´s what I was Iike.
I was not nice to have around.

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l got a new job in London...
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...and l was working there
until June 28, 1940.

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lt was lunchtime
and l was having a sandwich...

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...when suddenIy two guys appeared.
Two men.

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"´CID."´
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"´What have I done?"´
"´Nothing. You are Abrascha GorbuIski?

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"´You are now under arrest."´
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"´Under arrest?
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"´For what?"´
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"´You are an enemy aIien,
pIease come with us."´

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After Germany invaded Western Europe...
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...the British began rounding up
all refugees from Germany and Austria...

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...who were over the age of 16.
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Although the vast majority
were refugees from Nazi persecution...

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...anyone with a foreign accent
was viewed as a potential saboteur.

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Within a few months...
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...the government interned approximately
30,000 men and women.

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Plans were made
to deport as many as possible.

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The good thing about Iife is
you remember aII the good things...

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...that happened to you.
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Bad things, you forget about them.
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ln fact, you have to make an effort
to really remember them.

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The day came
when we had to go to the ship.

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Soldiers were standing there
with bayonets...

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...mounted on their rifles.
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And they pushed us aIong and said:
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"´Leave your Iuggage, you´II get it Iater on."´
They pushed us aIong the deck.


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