1:32:41
l remember VE Day very clearly.
1:32:44
lt was just wonderful.
1:32:47
We all danced in Piccadilly Circus...
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...and for me, l just thought, well, this is it:
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l´m going to see my parents next week.
1:32:56
I went straight back...
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...and wrote to both of them.
1:33:01
I wrote separate Ietters
because I had separate addresses...
1:33:04
...through the Red Cross messages
in Theresienstadt.
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The letters were returned to me...
1:33:12
...about three or four months later.
1:33:14
Took a long time.
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All it said on the back was:
´´Deported to Auschwitz...
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´´...October, ´44. ´´
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And war was finished in May ´45.
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That´s how I found out.
1:33:35
As soon as war finished...
1:33:37
...Hella and l went
to the Red Cross Committee...
1:33:40
...and asked them to search.
1:33:43
Eventually we got a letter from them...
1:33:45
...saying that my mother
had been killed in Minsk...
1:33:49
...in Russia, where she was deported.
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It´s very hard to come to terms with...
1:33:55
...when you´ve aIways had that hope.
And, of course, we´ve had...