1:42:00
...and those six years
wiII affect the rest of your Iife.
1:42:07
l never belonged when l was a child.
1:42:10
l wanted somewhere to find roots.
1:42:12
l feel...
1:42:14
...in the latter years of my life
that l´ve been accepted.
1:42:18
And nobody´s ever said to me:
1:42:21
"´You weren´t born in this country."´
1:42:23
I was as entireIy accepted
as everyone eIse.
1:42:27
And l gradually felt...
1:42:29
...l had somewhere l belonged.
1:42:35
To be a refugee...
1:42:36
...is the most horrible feeling, because...
1:42:38
...you lose your family,
you lose your home...
1:42:41
...you´re also without an identity.
1:42:43
Suddenly, you´re a nothing.
1:42:45
You are just reliant on other people´s...
1:42:49
...good nature, and help,
and understanding.
1:42:53
That´s why, l think...
1:42:55
...Iiving in IsraeI,
I feeI for the new immigrants.
1:42:57
I feeI for the Russians, and the Ethiopians...
1:43:00
...and anybody who´s new,
especiaIIy if they come without famiIies.
1:43:05
If I can do anything, I do it.
1:43:11
l am dazzled,
from the point of view of a writer.
1:43:14
Who else has...
1:43:16
...the unbelievably good fortune to live...
1:43:19
...with the Jewish manufacturer...
1:43:22
...the English working-class union man...
1:43:25
...railroad stoker, the milkman...
1:43:28
...and the Anglo-lndian Victorian ladies?
1:43:31
Whoever has the sheer...
1:43:34
...advantage of not studying this
from the outside...
1:43:39
...but being a heIpIess member
from the inside of these famiIies?
1:43:45
Seems to me...
1:43:47
...it was a gift.
1:43:48
Didn´t seem so at the time.
1:43:53
l now look at...
1:43:56
...my 14-year-old grandson...
1:43:58
...and l think, ´´This is the age when l lost...