Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Page #4
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There was no Jewish business
that I passed...
... that wasn't broken into.
The merchandise was either on the street...
... or looted completely.
As I got closer to school...
...I saw huge pillars of smoke...
...coming from the sections...
...where the two big synagogues
in Frankfurt were.
And I saw that they were on fire.
Our school happened to be just opposite
on the street where the synagogue was.
I was dragged out
with the stream of children.
Everybody went to the playground...
"There's a Jew!
"Let's throw her on the fire as well!"
I don't know how I got home.
I still don't know today how I got home.
And when I got home...
...my mother was absolutely shocked.
My father had been arrested.
My father was quite an outspoken person.
When they came to Buchenwald...
... and they took away
all the men's braces and shoelaces...
... he protested and said,
"You can't treat these old people like this."
So they made an example of him.
They beat him to death...
...in front of everybody...
...in order to instill terror and obedience.
They offered us my father's ashes
in return for money...
... and eventually the urn came.
And we buried it in the Jewish cemetery.
Of course, whether it was his ashes,
one never knows.
We heard loud banging
on the door downstairs...
... and so my aunt, my mother and I...
... ran up into the attic.
We were hiding
in an old wardrobe up there.
And I do remember feeling
as though I had spent my entire life...
...in that wardrobe.
And I also remember
whispering to my mother:
"I want to get out of here,
and not just out of this wardrobe...
"...I want to get out of Germany."
World revulsion was swift.
Yet Britain was the only country
willing to relax its immigration controls.
But only for children who would not
threaten British jobs or public funds.
Days after the Nazi pogrom...
... Anglo-Jewish leaders
met with Prime Minister Chamberlain...
... and urged him to let into the country
unaccompanied children...
... Christian as well as Jewish...
... up to the age of 17.
Six days later,
Quakers joined Jewish leaders...
... to present the government
... to be funded by refugee
and religious organizations.
That night, the House of Commons
debated the issue...
... and approved the plan.
"Call Otto Hirsch.
"There is a job for you to be done."
So I went and saw him, and he said:
"I have a request.
"We have been informed...
"...that the British government,
the House of Commons...
"...had discussed the destiny
of Jews in Germany after...
"...all this publicity...
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