1:22:03
...in which he said, ´´Tomorrow...
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´´...l´m going to be deported
to an unknown destination.
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´´And it may be a very long time
before you hear from me again. ´´
1:22:14
Then l received a letter from my mother.
1:22:18
She said, ´´Tomorrow...
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´´...l´m going to be deported from here. ´´
1:22:22
She encourages me to be good,
and honest...
1:22:26
...and courageous,
and to hold my head high...
1:22:30
...and to never give up hope.
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And this at a time when I think she knew...
1:22:35
...what might be happening to her.
1:22:41
Then there was
one more communication from her.
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A postcard dated September 4, 1942.
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lt´s written in real shaky handwriting.
1:22:52
She´s saying that she´s traveling...
1:22:54
...to the East, and is saying
a very final good-bye to me.
1:23:00
But for many, many years...
1:23:03
...l would see the postcard in front of me...
1:23:06
...and l would see she´s saying:
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´´Traveling to the East. ´´
1:23:10
Yet l would understand that she´s saying...
1:23:13
...she´s traveling in an easterly direction.
1:23:15
Then l would say to myself:
1:23:17
"´Maybe she´s going back to Kippenheim.
1:23:20
"´And maybe that´s good."´
1:23:21
And the finaI good-bye, I didn´t understand.
1:23:32
l always felt l should be grateful...
1:23:35
...that we´d been saved,
and that these peopIe had taken us in...
1:23:41
...and that l should be happier there.
1:23:43
But facts are facts,
and it wasn´t a good place to be.
1:23:48
UncIe BiIIy...
1:23:49
...who was not a very courageous man...
1:23:51
...every night, he wouId...
1:23:53
...go into the country,
and he took us with him.
1:23:56
We went to escape the bombs...
1:23:59
...untiI one day,
the peopIe where we were staying...