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926: Dressing Up As A Gestapo OfficerBetty BloomThe Gestapo were coming to arrest a Jewish baby in an orphanage. So my sister dressed up as a German officer and demanded this child...Read Full Memory
927: The Wonderful ThingRuth RogoffMy father was a courier for getting people out of Germany & over the border into Czechoslovakia, illegally. One day he was betrayed...Read Full Memory
929: Fending For Myself Aged 9Stephen NagyI contracted scarlet fever. You had to go to an isolation hospital for six weeks. The fascist Hungarians took over. So, I was stuck in hospital...Read Full Memory
930: Reunion After 22 Years In SiberiaDorothy BohmMy sister was one when I left. 22 years later I saw her again. We had no language in common. No memories in common, no childhood. Nothing...Read Full Memory
931: Let Down Too Many TimesRuth Barnett MBEMy mother appeared out of nowhere. Which was how I experienced it: the grown-ups made arrangements & then I was told...Read Full Memory
942: Father's New WomanJohn Hajdu MBEIn each flat it was about 20 of us squeezed in. The area was guarded by the Arrow Cross Party: fascist & brutal. Hardly any food...Read Full Memory
943: The Legless Side Of The BedLaszlo RomanI was always told I mustn’t pee by the side of the road because someone might see that I am circumcised...Read Full Memory
946: Being Stateless Is An AdvantageBenno SternMy father, by a great stroke of fortune, was made stateless by Poland because he’d fled the country. It worked to our advantage...Read Full Memory
952: Interned On My 16th BirthdayJohn GoldsmithIn 1940, on my 16th birthday, I was writing an English essay & looking through the window & I saw a policeman...Read Full Memory
966: I Thought You Were A NaziBea Green MBE There were two girls who often turned up with their Hitler Youth uniform. I stayed clear of them. One of them found me after the war...Read Full Memory
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...Read Full Memory
972: Discovering My Brother Was AliveMala Tribich MBEOne day I got a letter from my brother Ben. We were in this stately home with all its beauty, I opened it, I read it & was so excited...Read Full Memory
983: The Struggle To Stay AliveHelen Aronson BEMWe were taken to a disused prison. People were crying & hungry, not knowing anything. In the morning, Chaim Rumkowski came...Read Full Memory
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...Read Full Memory
995: Father's ShopHarry Bibring BEMIt was perfectly OK to try & obtain Jewish property by purchasing it at a peppercorn price...Read Full Memory
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