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979: Sitting Through ThatBronia SnowMy parents always discussed everything. But not a word was spoken about my going to England. So I found myself one fine day...
980: Getting StreetwiseMargot HarrisWhen we were packing for England, the Gestapo came & went through all the cutlery drawers & took the silver cutlery & this & that...
981: 4th of the 4th, 1944Jack CynamonMy first recollection is aeroplanes in the sky in Brussels. One morning the sky was full of aeroplanes. There must have been 60...
982: Not Dwelling On ThingsGerta RegensburgerI have no feelings & not many memories. I’m not a very retrospective person. It always amazes me that so many people remember...
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...
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...
985: Black Heart Outside The FlatMiriam FreedmanIt's difficult. Children feel very protected. Everything goes well. Then all of a sudden you see terrible things, like people disappearing...
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...
988: Getting Up From The DustIvor Perl BEMI was only 12 when I was taken to Auschwitz. I feel very, very hurt that I haven’t got many memories of my family...
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...
991: My Ransacked SchoolRuth JacksonFor the Nazis, you didn’t have to do anything wrong, you just had to be Jewish. On the day before Kristallnacht, the Nazi Youth went round...
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...
993: Jews Not WelcomeRuth JacksonOne thing stands out in my mind. I went shopping with my mother & saw a man in front of me with a swastika burnt into his skull...
994: Grass Snakes At The BeaconLilly LampertAll I know: I wanted to come to England to be with my sister Gertie. I didn't know I wasn't going to see my parents again...
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...
997: My Mother & FatherTrude Silman MBEMy 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...
998: Red Oaks Boarding SchoolRuth JacksonI was led upstairs to an empty dormitory & told that the very end bed was mine & I should have a bath & come down to tea. I felt miserable...
999: The Caretaker & His DaughterMiriam FreedmanAt 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...
1000: IdziaMala Tribich MBERumours started circulating that there's going to be a deportation. So people were in panic, trying to find ways of saving themselves...
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