Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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"´...because it was too horribIe to describe."´
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From an overseas liner in Sydney harbor...
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...a strange contingent of new arrivals
is transshipped aboard a ferry.

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Enemy aliens who are being interned
in Australia for the duration of the war.

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Before we knew it, we were off the ship.
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The first thing l remember
is that each one of us...

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...got a box...
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...of food. That was the best meaI
I ever had in my Iife.

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After starving for two months...
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...I opened up the box.
There were two cheese sandwiches...

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...thick Iike this, and a banana...
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...and an appIe, and an orange...
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...and they were giving second heIpings.
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It was unbeIievabIe.
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As the war progressed...
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...reports of mass arrests and deportation
of Central-European Jews...

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...began to reach Britain.
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ln the spring of ´43, the city of Berlin...
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...was cleansed of the last Jews.
They came and took...

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...my famiIy and myseIf aIong.
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We were taken to a coIIection point.
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After a coupIe of days, we were deported...
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...to Auschwitz, though we did not know...
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...when we got to the train,
which consisted...

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...of cattIe cars, where we were going.
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We landed in Auschwitz
and the moment we landed there...

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...we were commanded to leave
the trains...

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...women with chiIdren to the Ieft
and men to the right.

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That was the Iast time that I saw my wife,
my then wife, and chiId.

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Lory Cahn and her family
were deported to Theresienstadt...

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...the Czech ghetto the Nazis used
to deceive the world...


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