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"And we were ready in the morning, before it was light
and we waited outside the house
sitting on suitcases
my parents and my brother and me
and when the truck came we climbed into the back
of it and my father locked the door of our house and gave the key to
someone I'd never seen before. And we were driven away in the truck ...
And and my mother was still crying and my father had his arm round her.
as I looked back our street was empty. There was nobody to wave to
mother
"We didn't get on to the boat until the third night when it was
dark. There were several boats all close together and it was raining.
There were some headlights shining from a car and men with lamps and we
had to form into a long line... and my father and mother were both
carrying two suitcases each and I had to hold on to my brother
kept on saying 'Keep hold of him! Hold on to him!' and I kept hold of his hand and when we got near the plank that went up onto the boat
there were two men in uniform who started asking my father questions and we stopped moving forward ... and they made my mother and father open the suitcases in the rain ... and they started to go through everything inside...
"And somebody picked up my brother and carried him up the plank
and looking
back I could see my parents pleading with the two men and my mother was
kneeling on the stones in front of them and I kept on calling to her
because I knew she thought we were still with her and didn't know we were
on the boat
and I still kept hold of him and I went up onto the boat
"And then we were made to go down some stairs, under the deck
and there was no room anywhere and no space to sit down
all pushed close together in our wet clothes
and we were
and a man lifted me and
my brother up onto a sort of shelf and we stayed there holding on to cach
other.
/"And I
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