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927: The Wonderful Thing
Ruth Rogoff
My father was a courier for getting people out of Germany & over the border into Czechoslovakia, illegally. One day he was betrayed...
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960: The Awful Heydrich Reprisals
Frank Bright
Two Gestapo men came to our flat & asked where was I at the time. My mother had been indoors. I had just arrived from school...
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963: Experiencing Antisemitism
Stella Shinder
I had a little umbrella with red stripes. A little schoolmate of mine said, 'Is that the blood of German babies that the Jews are killing?'
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969: No One In My Situation
Lia Lesser
In 1939, my father married again in Prague. His wife was called Ola & she was a seamstress. When she came out of Auschwitz she got in touch...
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971: Equalising What Happened
Dr Charlotte Feldman
They used to demonstrate in the street below us. They used to shout, ‘Jews to Palestine!’ I had a very happy childhood...
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979: Sitting Through That
Bronia Snow
My parents always discussed everything. But not a word was spoken about my going to England. So I found myself one fine day...
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985: Black Heart Outside The Flat
Miriam Freedman
It's difficult. Children feel very protected. Everything goes well. Then all of a sudden you see terrible things, like people disappearing...
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997: My Mother & Father
Trude Silman MBE
My mother is a question mark. I know she survived ‘til 1944 because we used to get the odd occasional 25-word Red Cross letter, but then it stopped...
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999: The Caretaker & His Daughter
Miriam Freedman
At night time, the caretaker used to bring us food. We sat there, never able to talk, no toys or books or anything. Things becoming all the time worse...
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