1:38:02
l just wasn´t ready yet to accept...
1:38:05
...the fact that l no longer had parents...
1:38:07
...that l hadn´t had parents for a long time.
1:38:17
Although the vast majority
of Kindertransport children...
1:38:20
...lost their mothers and fathers
in the Holocaust...
1:38:23
...remarkably...
1:38:24
...a few parents survived
to be reunited with their children.
1:38:31
My parents managed
to get out of Austria...
1:38:33
...by going to ltaly.
1:38:35
And from ltaly they got into France.
1:38:38
They were hidden by some extremely
wonderful people there.
1:38:43
After the war ended...
1:38:45
...I was toId that my parents...
1:38:47
...were aIive...
1:38:49
...and that some day I wouId probabIy
have to go back and Iive with them.
1:38:54
I think I was horrified by that idea.
1:38:57
Uncle Percy persuaded my parents...
1:39:00
...to wait until l´d finished...
1:39:01
...the English School Certificate at age 16.
1:39:04
And also, they needed time
to re-establish themselves.
1:39:10
Eventually, in 1947,
they were ready for me.
1:39:14
l didn´t want to go,
but the Cohens took me to Paris...
1:39:17
...where l was to meet my parents.
1:39:20
I remember standing outside the hoteI.
1:39:25
I saw, in the distance,
my parents approach.
1:39:29
I couIdn´t Iook at them directIy.
1:39:32
So I Iooked at them...
1:39:33
...their refIection in a shop window...
1:39:36
...as they waIked towards me. I feIt...
1:39:38
...a very, very strong emotion.
1:39:42
lt was a sense...
1:39:44
...of elation...
1:39:46
...and of love. l suddenly felt it...
1:39:49
...and fought it.
1:39:50
But l felt, you know, l knew it was them.
1:39:54
We met.
1:39:57
Kurt´s father, who was more demonstrative
than the mother...