Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Page #3
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German troops
... when Hitler demanded the annexation
of Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
He insisted that the province...
... which was home
to over three million ethnic Germans...
... be allowed to secede and join the Reich.
On October 1,
with international agreement...
... German troops
marched into Sudetenland...
... adding one-fifth of Czechoslovakia
to the Reich...
... and opening the way
for further dismemberment of the country.
From then on, people were wondering...
Father was an optimist because...
... he did business with people in France
who wrote and said:
"It's going to be bad, get out."
But for Father, no,
things like that wouldn't happen.
He had a greater faith in mankind.
He used to say that he would rather
trust people and be disappointed...
...then go through life
not trusting anybody.
Less than half a year later...
... Hitler would destroy the Czech state.
But now, the Nazis continued
their persecution of the Jews.
In November,
they orchestrated a vicious pogrom...
... which they later called Kristallnacht:
I had had a strange dream in the night...
... that my father was being arrested.
Our evening meal that evening...
...was the last meal
I ever remember having with my father.
I looked at him...
... and I thought, well, I hadn't really...
... seen his features properly.
You know how you look
at somebody intensely?
And something told me...
...that I must imprint
that image of him in my mind.
Before I went to bed...
...my father, in a rather stern voice,
said to me:
"If you hear any strange noises
during the night...
"...immediately get out of bed...
"...and go into that wardrobe
in the hallway. "
And I said, "I don't understand."
And quite differently than my father...
...would normally answer my questions,
he said:
"Don't ask any questions,
just do as you're told."
I was woken up at 2:00 a.m.
Terrible banging on the door.
There were two...
...Nazis at the door, shouting:
"You're all under arrest!
Put some clothes on and come with us!"
I remember that it was a very cold...
... very dark night. We all went off...
... to an assembly point,
which was like a big square.
And there were just...
And I mean thousands.
and people I didn't know.
And people crying.
I think everybody was petrified.
I also remember very vividly
that they were beating up the rabbi.
And they had fetched the Torahs
out of the synagogue.
And I think they were trampling on them.
I took my bicycle
and went to school as always.
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