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… Whenever I have talked about this trip later on, I have always mentioned how well this journey was organized. It must have been a mammoth job for some Department and yet it all came off so very well. Ever since George and I got married in November 1945 …
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… winter and found it hard to breath the cold air. I had to teach myself how to inhale short breaths to be able to take in the cold! Share Your … Canada about a year ago and our first impression of the Canadians was how friendly and welcoming they treated us! Canada is such a great …
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… a luxury liner of the Holland America Line but we would get a call and have to be ready to leave in a week to ten days. Mom and dad discussed … see our family again. The cost of travel across the Atlantic for a visit was considered totally out of reach back in those days. We … With Piet was his wife Aag and dad's younger brother Henk. We were one of, I believe, only two families aboard the ship that were emigrating. …
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… My father worked for the ARP (air raid precautions) and had a little office in our local village hall where the social club was also … to use such tools as a micrometer, I suspect some of these trucks may have had difficulties later on! The crankshaft milling machine used a … of these individuals became notable spies for the allied war effort. (For further details, refer to a book "Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire …
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… walk through the doors. He said that he would be wearing a blue shirt. How is it that on this, an uncommonly busy day, every man who enters is … reunited with their son Kopel who gave them instructions on how to survive in the camp. In Auschwitz prisoners declared 'unable to … women gave him twenty dollars. He could not accept such generosity, how would he ever pay it back? Her words, "We trust you, we have faith …
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… possibly 1945. Pease were declared during her crossing. Chris was a baby so diapers etc. needed to be washed etc. Mom commented on how small her room was and of course she had to share. She mentioned …
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… 21 in Halifax on March 7, 1946 during a terrible snow storm. We had a bad voyage over on the Mauretania as I was very sea sick and she never … a good middle class home in a pretty place in England called Shoreham-by-Sea in Sussex overlooking the English Channel. She had no idea what … horse and sleigh had to take us the rest of the way as the snow was so high and heavy. On arrival at the home of my grandparents, she met a …
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… I am very proud, that Dr. Dehav invited me here today, so, that I will have the opportunity, to tell you about two brave people, my Mother, … their chances to survive and many Jews did this, also because of their higher educations, many were employed in high places, such as the … the night, the Germans and Polish police, came back and took Jewish boys of 12-13 years, about 300, to collect the bodies of those shot in …
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… before the eye." These words from Longfellow's poem "My Lost Youth" have perhaps more meaning for me than for most people, although it may … much during my childhood in Danzig; that the things are hard to speak of, because they have been so horrible; but the memory cannot die, and … and hatred, people have dreams of freedom and liberty, which, may come true to some of them but may not come to others. We had our dreams …