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Encounter With Nazi Officials

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954: Arriving In AuschwitzJudith SteinbergWe were put in a big school hall, we were all sitting on the floor with a rucksack. They said we are going to go to work...
957: How To Hide In ViennaFather Francis WahleLetter-writing was timetabled: once a week. But from 1942 onwards there were no letters in reply because my parents went underground...
959: The Invasion Of HungaryGeorge DonathIt was a Sunday. We went to my grandparents for lunch as usual. All of a sudden we see these black Mercedes drawing up in front...
960: The Awful Heydrich ReprisalsFrank BrightTwo Gestapo men came to our flat & asked where was I at the time. My mother had been indoors. I had just arrived from school...
970: Mother's Death At Our LiberationMirjam FinkelsteinBy January 1945 there were rumours. People got quite excited. There was a wooden table, we had to walk past the camp doctor...
980: Getting StreetwiseMargot HarrisWhen 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 SchoolAlbert LesterI 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 GhettoHelen Aronson BEMIn 1944, the ghetto was closed, everybody sent to camps. But the Germans decided: there's still some money to be made...
987: Father's DeportationBetty BloomUnfortunately, at 6am, there was a knock on the door & two Gestapo officers marched in & arrested my father...
989: Buying Sauerkraut & SoapEva MendelssonWhen you're a child, when nasty things happen, you remember. It makes a tremendous impression, even if you don’t quite understand...
990: The ShockMarianne Summerfield BEMMy father was asked to report to Nazi headquarters. Stupidly, although my mother told him not to, he just walked into it...
992: ChickenpoxBridget NewmanI 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 ShopHarry Bibring BEMIt was perfectly OK to try & obtain Jewish property by purchasing it at a peppercorn price...
996: How To Hide In BerlinHans DanzigerMy 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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