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The Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer remembers.
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The Beginnings of Her Persecution
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Until 1938 my father always believed,
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it will not stay,
it will happen differently,
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One must not forget,
he was very German,
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in World War I he lost a brother for Germany,
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was highly decorated himself,
had the Iron Cross.
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Mom tried a lot to …
She wanted to register herself for America,
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then as the aunt sent documents, from Brazil,
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and she went to the consulate,
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they looked at the documents,
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said, your sister fell for a swindler,
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those are not authentic documents.
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We had only at the end a chance left to move to Shanghai,
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and my father did not allow it,
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said, what do you want with two children in Shanghai?
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You can also starve in Berlin.
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Humans dropped like flies,
because they were old and food not enough.
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Internment in Theresienstadt
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I worked in the mica.
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That is a stone, that is needed for insulation −
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thus work, which is needed for war.
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I worked eight or ten hours.
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One got a piece of bread every few days,
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and a bit magarine and a small sachet of sugar,
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potatos, rotten or what.
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One also had to clean the barracks of the old people,
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but one lived somehow.
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The End of Her Captivity
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Many were dead,
but the living looked exactly like the dead.
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And they told us then.
And then I, we, we found out, what Auschwitz was.
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We didn't know. That is, when I said to myself,
I will not see my mother and my brother again.
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We were liberated on 8 May.
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We stood at the fence, day and night,
without going out.
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One also did not dare.
But one could also not separate themself.
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Her Appeal to the Humans
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What depresses me so much, is, that,
when I say to the young humans,
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my brother was seventeen and a half.
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My brother had not the chance,
that you have.
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Everything important against the forgetting,
as a warning for you.
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There is no Jewish, no Christian, no Muslim blood –
there is only human blood.
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