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I wrote separate Ietters
because I had separate addresses...
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...through the Red Cross messages
in Theresienstadt.
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The letters were returned to me...
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...about three or four months later.
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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.
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As soon as war finished...
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...Hella and l went
to the Red Cross Committee...
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...and asked them to search.
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Eventually we got a letter from them...
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...saying that my mother
had been killed in Minsk...
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...in Russia, where she was deported.
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It´s very hard to come to terms with...
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...when you´ve aIways had that hope.
And, of course, we´ve had...
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...no grave, reaIIy...
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...no parting, no end, no funeraI.
It´s that sort of vague feeIing...
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...in the air of hope,
and that hope suddenIy fading.
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...in the children´s ward and l was
always joking with them and laughing.
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And l was called to the telephone...
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...and there was a telegram for me.
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I asked her if she wouId read it.
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So she read over the teIephone:
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´´Your parents were gravely ill.
There was no hope.
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´´Wait for further news. ´´
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I probabIy didn´t quite take it in...
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...so I went back to the ward and started...
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...carried on making beds,
untiI one of the IittIe boys said to me:
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"´Why aren´t you Iaughing this time?"´
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That´s when I burst into tears and ran out.