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Attempted Humiliation
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925: Finding Something Good In Everything
Ursula Gilbert
My father always used to find something good in everything. He'd say: ‘Things are not so bad. We'll get through it.’ Until the very last day...
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945: Dad's Blood-Drenched Shirt
Bea Green MBE
I believe trying to protect your children by not telling them everything is a terrible thing. Because it makes them imagine things worse than reality...
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958: Discovering I Was Jewish
John Dobai
My parents thought that by changing their religion, it might produce some sort of saving, at least for me. But they were wrong...
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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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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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977: The Cruel Guardian
Maria Ault
My first guardians were fine. But when we were evacuated we stayed with a very, very, very, very bad person who used to hit us...
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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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988: Getting Up From The Dust
Ivor Perl BEM
I was only 12 when I was taken to Auschwitz. I feel very, very hurt that I haven’t got many memories of my family...
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989: Buying Sauerkraut & Soap
Eva Mendelsson
When you're a child, when nasty things happen, you remember. It makes a tremendous impression, even if you don’t quite understand...
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