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Encounter With Nazi Officials
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980: Getting Streetwise
Margot Harris
When we were packing for England, the Gestapo came & went through all the cutlery drawers & took the silver cutlery & this & that...
984: The Attack On Our School
Albert Lester
I was playing with a little car in the common room when there was this huge commotion, children were running, screaming...
986: The End of Łódź Ghetto
Helen Aronson BEM
In 1944, the ghetto was closed, everybody sent to camps. But the Germans decided: there's still some money to be made...
987: Father's Deportation
Betty Bloom
Unfortunately, at 6am, there was a knock on the door & two Gestapo officers marched in & arrested my father...
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...
990: The Shock
Marianne Summerfield BEM
My father was asked to report to Nazi headquarters. Stupidly, although my mother told him not to, he just walked into it...
992: Chickenpox
Bridget Newman
I was stuck. Then one day, the doorbell rang: a Gestapo. He came in, he was really rather nice. He had white hair & a big, white moustache...
995: Father's Shop
Harry Bibring BEM
It was perfectly OK to try & obtain Jewish property by purchasing it at a peppercorn price...
996: How To Hide In Berlin
Hans Danziger
My father had nerves of steel. Before the war, Jews were obliged to put ‘Israel’ in front of their names. My father refused...
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