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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...
931: Let Down Too Many Times
Ruth Barnett MBE
My mother appeared out of nowhere. Which was how I experienced it: the grown-ups made arrangements & then I was told...
938: Some Kind Of Darkness
Eva Evans MBE
I wanted to be a writer. But I never felt that I could write in English the way I could have done in German. So that was the end of that...
944: Cat Piddle In My Beer
Rudolph Sabor
It strengthened my belief: this cannot be forever. A cultured people like the Germans, would wake up any day. Total delusion...
976: Coming To England Alone Aged 5
Hannah Wurzburger
It's a bottomless pit. So absolutely appalling. Children are so vulnerable. Especially when they're separated from their family...
982: Not Dwelling On Things
Gerta Regensburger
I have no feelings & not many memories. I’m not a very retrospective person. It always amazes me that so many people remember...
987: Father's Deportation
Betty Bloom
Unfortunately, at 6am, there was a knock on the door & two Gestapo officers marched in & arrested my father...
991: My Ransacked School
Ruth Jackson
For 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: 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...
993: Jews Not Welcome
Ruth Jackson
One 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...
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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