Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Page #2
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- 2000
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just walk on until I came to this house.
Word got back to my parents that while
on the tram, I was a very talkative boy.
I told them all the bad things
that Herr Hitler was doing.
I thought that "Herr" was his first name,
of course.
And word got back to my parents
that maybe...
...I shouldn't be traveling alone.
And my father then came with me.
He didn't say much, he hardly ever did...
...but he let it be known...
...that it wasn't wise to go around
saying bad things about Hitler.
In the weeks following
the annexation of Austria...
... Nazi authorities had enacted
all the anti-Jewish laws...
years to put into place in Germany.
For anyone coming from Vienna,
it was very dramatic.
when my parents talked about...
...giving up the apartment,
that we had to leave.
That was something,
you know, the bottom falls out.
Everything falls out of you.
This is all I knew...
... and we had to give it up,
we had to leave.
That was probably the biggest blow I had.
Just the idea...
...it'll all end the way it is.
My mother was an activist.
She knew something had to be done.
The decision was to go...
... to England to be hired...
... as a domestic, because the English
would take young women...
... who would not interfere
with the labor market.
The plan was:
She would go ahead.She'd try to get me and my father out.
This is the time when I remember...
... there was no conversation
among the grown-ups...
... except how to get out of Vienna.
It's interesting because we're now asked,
"How come you didn't leave?"
And when I think
of what it meant to leave...
...how impossible it was to leave.
First of all, you had to have a sponsor...
... in the country you were going to.
Someone who would promise you would
not become a burden on the government.
You would have to get a visa
from the state department...
... or the government to be allowed in.
Then you had to get an exit permit
from the Nazis.
All these things had to come together.
And they had a time span
You had to collect all these things together
so that they would be ready.
And it usually didn't happen.
The hardest thing
was to find a country to go to.
The countries under discussion were:
Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela...
... Shanghai, Cuba, the Dominican Republic.
I remember going with my father
to the American consulate.
There was a queue around the block...
... up the stairs...
... and around the room.
We are now in the late summer of 1938.
I got to the United States on May 1, 1951.
It was a 13-year...
...quota for us.
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