Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Page #5
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- 2000
- 122 min
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"...and they are disgusted."
"They came to the conclusion...
"...to accept children for a certain time.
"We have an office for the operations.
"See what you can do."
As the transports got underway
in Germany and Austria...
... thousands of Sudetenland refugees
continued to flee to Prague.
English stockbroker Nicholas Winton...
... was summoned by a friend
to view the situation for himself.
with Doreen Warriner...
... a representative of the British Committee
for Refugees from Czechoslovakia.
We did have the feeling
that the position was much more urgent...
...than anybody in London thought.
Doreen Warriner said, "I don't know
what we will do about the children. "
Almost spontaneously I said,
"Well, when I get back to England...
"...I find that the Home Office
will allow them in...
"...we'll try and get some of them
into England. "
And when I went to the Home Office,
they said:
"Under certain conditions, you can bring in
as many children as you like. "
We had to produce...
...somebody who'd guarantee 50
against their re-immigration...
...which is about 1,000 today.
It was quite a lot of money.
And then I had to find a family
who'd take each individual child.
It certainly wasn't easy,
but it wasn't that difficult.
It's easier to get somebody
to take a child than to take a grown-up.
I tried to get America involved...
... and wrote to a lot of the senators...
...and got a lot of answers
saying how concerned they were...
...and all the reasons
why they couldn't do anything.
In the United States...
... a congressional bill
to admit 20,000 child refugees...
... died in committee.
One of the arguments against the bill...
... was that accepting children
without their parents...
... was contrary to the laws of God.
My father said:
"Mommy and I cannot leave,
but you're going to leave. "
I said, "What do you mean,
I'm going to leave?"
"You're going to England," he said.
"When?"
"Thursday," he said.
I knew...
...that she ought to go...
...that I ought to send her away...
...but I couldn't imagine
giving permission for her to go.
My husband said, "She must go."
He didn't listen to me.
He just arranged everything for her.
And I had to give in,
and I saw in the end that he was right.
But the hurt is unbelievable.
That cannot be described.
My father died when I was 3 years old.
My mother had to go out to work...
... so I wound up in the orphanage.
When Polish Jews were arrested
all over Germany...
... I'd found out that...
...my mother was deported.
I was on my own.
I had nobody, no one, nothing.
I went to the Gemeinde.
There was this wonderful woman
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