I was more than the mayor this was manage not my father must be that and then my system was under me and the rest and that im the 2nd child and then then finds out he needs them at another mention is a name and the father made the commute. Then if and then together and then for example never actually. After the more you know what i took me 15 years to find something you know been done in then from home and to me means im up there just a straight q you know were just like. Best friends. And we did lot of things together he was the leader i was a follower. It was very nice. Up on. The wharf. The 1st victims of the war forgotten my history at the end of the 2nd world war 20000 children were stranded in the ruins of europe in the euphoria of liberation their fate became a footnote some of them found refuge in an old monastery near munich which became a center for Homeless Children in early summer 945. They had been snatched from their parents in the concentration camps or deported from their homeland to serve the nazi regime now a new life is to begin for them far away from the chaos of the postwar world. And i dont remember that being together with leslie in the camps but but i do remember. That was. Their lives were coming through started out by train and then allies were close enough so they would shoot at the local motor of the train move. And so do we started marching. And that that that was at that. Fun enough on as part of was my and now a much anymore and then some other focus but just from a Different Group too much joined in that if you if you felt you were shut right away so it which important to. Keep people up. So. He was between my brother and i kind of have him stay up if you can answer that shot your dad ever so they saved me my life in my way. And on days and days and days they marched us. And all of a sudden im looking sort of ahead of intervention i can still see what happened i see tanks never so attend to my life i was so tense coming from gathered that action and then they so dead says run away guys and im away any tapping so quick yes there are tens of thousands and then american soldier says ok i did 10 because there was shooting going on that day a place to get behind the tent and then forget the day it was 23 of them april 9th 4520 may prove the day and and hiding in the one of those folks was an enormous. Guy comes up to me like john says to me i jewish. I said yes and he says now shall know my muslim jew. In me this of course. I was at a loss. On this causes of prisoners on a road and by the radio. And i was just one of them for a 1st few days their babies by the u. S. Army they were giving us food theyre giving us and theyre charkha it. And the artistry there is as soft you had to war and look for 4 years of. Children from the camps wandered all over europe without family without a goal it was a daily struggle for survival between the field hospitals and the allies and wherever they could find a roof over their heads. Even if theres a privilege to go i was a forced labor at b. M. W. s in munich and the ticket told us that i. For taking that. For non jewish children who came from the Eastern European countries alone or were taken to germany with their families for forced labor deliberation was also the beginning of a new odyssey. The americans are all of bavaria we were placed in different camps. Some wanted to go back home others thought about emigrating there were more and more of us nobody really knew what was going to happen to us we were still children. Everybody knew there must be a chore. Nobody no harm and the choice of the right kind of children. Later fisher was determined to help these children who were left to their own devices she grew up as a child of a jewish family in czechoslovakia and upgraded to britain in 1039 her parents were murdered in the trip link a concentration camp. At the end of the war she volunteered with. 300. 12008 workers from almost every nation. Greater fisher was part of team 182. 00. Thats 6 feet for 8 people from different nationalities there put into these. To go to germany. And look for other Companies Short of that then we started to look for a facility to offer your children said. The american on live event the americans are all does it for us cluster illness. Could. In the store is a catalyst cloister completely unsuitable for the purpose of art is it for 4 Children Center. 10 beds. So this side is to start the Childrens Center there. The church. Has really cleaned up the plays. And so on july 11th 1985 the 1st international Childrens Center for displaced persons opened a place where young Holocaust Survivors and children of Eastern European forced laborers could live together in a safe haven for lost children. And how could a child not feel lost among the flood of refugees the war had unleashed. In 1045 at least 11000000 displaced persons were distributed to around 700 camps in germany austria and italy. In does doff near done how specifically intended for children. Words came. As a dirty word to me i said im not interested in any camp un medics came there and and said here try this shit as camp and if you dont like it you leave. We were accommodated in the Doctors Museum in munich together with adults you. Then miss fisher came and said you children cant stay here. If you said there was a drinking and Everything Possible that we werent supposed to see. So i guess she took us to endless doff you does that of only. Pressboard we had was the american army. If you go on a base it was in american truck so. You got. To meet a store and there were not just jews there was also. A lot of. Polish other slavic people. Yes. You know. Shes from the study procedure but we had been assigned to a large foreign power. A mother who worked in the fields of the lifeboat naive. Mother died in 1945 i think in february 1. So we were brought to interest on life. Then mrs fisher deceived us. She greeted all the children who arrived there. So she is the it to go the. Whole time i was just trying to hold on to my sister skirt so she would be too far away. But the blue cloud story e. Tec it but it was a monastery so there were large swings and big staircases that lead to the upper floor. I still remember very well how it back over to when we ran down the. New polling. 2 months after it opened 192. 00 children from 13 countries from babies to teenagers already live in dust off. The centers most urgent task was to reawaken their lost trust in humanity. Brain. And the 1st. To give to force to give the closing which was to focus on the children who are. Out of this state that for good. So we had several just as bad as the romans said you dont have to take bread you will get bread to everyone. But i saw some of those youngsters now 3040 years later some of them still take that. Piece of the pillow in order to make sure that there will be a next really im about having potato soup. The make read from this. This remember market for tomorrow morning. Some stole. They grabbed hold plates of food and hid them under the tables of us though top of the tables in the monastery were huge at least 15 meters lot. And then we enjoyed it later under the table for the dead time must have been a south the only thing i want to do that best of my life is eat and sleep then just eat and sleeve thats all i want to do we had very high stead as we had to eat this foxes for the year that i did over and. Devote it. To the table of this one called a person with the children but you know that you are very hungry you dont know the steak the tub or to take. The fork in this. You just take your head in. The it says that and some of those. Long was saying we had for us. As clean coal as was very a cause before i thought i was very big and once before or through one before without having it wash not even bid our ship them so we could choose a dress or trousers everything was stacked on shelves and each child could choose what to wear but at. We have to be very innovative this is closing. The baby closing. The boys and the girls we taught them to make their own tarsus and theyre all skirts from. Which we got from the home. Of that material which was the flag material which turned out the nazi flag was that. Of their huge rolls of blue and white cotton material which the germans used for their petty as they make clothes for the babies and the smart children designed so that hard and blue and white little you know pants and the children looked adorable you know they looked like they were french sailors. After everything we went through in the war into stores was paradise a paradise on earth. There were people who were there just for us. Mr marx and the others became like parents to us. Can people like home. Home was. But in fact save. The Queen Elizabeth ducking of thought and on how to manage delegates of United Nations general assembly. As 1st Lady Eleanor Roosevelt had already in 1039. 00 urged jewish refugee children from germany be admitted to the us a few months after the war ended she met with a United Nations observer delegation in europe she quickly realized the problems faced in rebuilding the shattered continent all too often former concentration camps only superficially converted served as emergency accommodation for the homeless was that liberation lack of food poor hygiene and inactivity left millions of people demoralized. Given the urgency of the situation roosevelt wrote. What is important is rehabilitation the sooner these people can be taken where they can become citizens and feel they are actually building a new life the better it will be for the whole world. But the children of indias dont have abby could count on team 182 whether medical doctor psychologist or teacher their dedication was impressive. There ever since to the still dernier no mother no doctor ever seeing. Mainly the emotional part too to help them vista storage if you had a problem you could always go to any one of them and they would solve it they try to solve it for you i will never forget what they done and stuff done a very good job this summer because dont forget people when they turn to become boys in a terrible state traumatized i had this. Psychological problem so why did i survive and not my other brothers and sisters my mother or my friends why did i do to deserve this freedom. I never got when he said. I find the perfect marriage. The perfect wife. Why couldnt they. Hear her yet i know here that. The majority of the survivors remained alone with their trauma the world closed its eyes to their fate life had to go on. But in interest of the children were encouraged to speak to let it all out. Each tell her story to tell tell the story. South of the separation of their parents off the smaller sisters and brother this. You must understand those who survived and especially the church the. Really extraordinarily strong people there will to survive blocked out absolutely at least the visit to survive and the though they choose to live a block out absolutely f. You are recovering both psychologically and physically and. I think we had the feeling that probably have a pretty good life so it was pretty good hope for. The future. Of the home that. Im more thats the kind of man you know the thing i remember very well it was just just a process of being normalized or getting to feel normal being human beings. You have to move your threat to him it wasnt like i couldnt speak anymore to me. But i was dead inside. I didnt want to speak anymore that was that. He was 6 years old a child i was afraid all the time that he would just disappear you know so we didnt leave each other side. Like that. No no mommy the evenings were the worst mama was no longer there. During the day we were allowed 2 hours a day in the yard and then we could play make. Do you remember the mcalary played or to last decades above return to games yes and i still remember at some point the memory came back with how we danced in front of the building pictured under the arcades with him. But i think oh yeah after all the agony during the war we were doing well we were able to start out childhood all over again just for. Whoever wanted to could learn to play the guitar or the violin but we could choose anything and then there was the atmosphere we discovered American Music with music that was completely unknown to us. In at the same if there was a theater and there was a small stanch she said and gave it was great fun over there for the solo book to. Learn some english they tried to do teachers. Trades. And theyre doing some general schooling you know. Trying to make up some for what they missed. For you this is the sweet of what children do if you play soccer or watch movies when on hikes or should i say for less but. For me because its a different sort of than a snore her life is possible but i assume that the day after the 3 much 6 suited to. Europe was going through the most difficult phase of reconstruction the surviving jews from Central Europe were urged to return to their home countries but antisemitism had not disappeared with the allied victory and local residents were unwilling to accept the returning us. In july 9 14642 people of jewish faith fell victim to a pogrom in the city of killed say in poland men women and children were killed by local residents. Violence persecution and attacks against jewish communities triggered a new wave of fear and prompted many polish jews to emigrate. In india for i dont remember anything you know dramatic happening but if you were some tension there one problem that originated long before in those off long before the freedom as that nationality is then you get along with each other i remember one time i got into something again read some of the porsche. And some of my jewish. Breads were very disapproving you know say. Blacks rip them. Young boy my age i know younger much younger but bigger than me everybody is bigger. And. Cursed me out and called me as shit and nasty words for a joke and i hit him in the face and i broke his nose and i broke my finger. We would always go in the evening so it was a piece of chocolate which was a big sweet treat so one evening. A conversation came the next day so a group of jewish children rest. And then the girls the porters heard that and said they would not stay vis jewish children in one place that our jews were tell the people there the sutters they had horns their creative would kill them all so i give under their side and i say we must be a jewish. So we taught him be our choice you can not imagine this is clearly of those children this started crying and shouting when it struck possible and you are good people and you helping us he took us months it took us months every day to grow over the same story that. There were jewish people be a catalyst people do there are kinds of. There are good people and bad people but to be there here to help. The main task of team 182 was to offer psychological and practical help for the way back to a normal life it was a mission that was not always easy to accomplish. That when ever we venture school. The boys had already their pockets full of stones to go to stores and the population and we took souls he said if you see anybody on the way and on stands and that this is the 3rd this is how we found to take him then. That is a german came and complained that the children were stealing his ackles. More dish it out the up. Then miss fischer asked him who is to blame the children of course and why are they here. Why did the children have to steal apples when you can you give them to them. Because other which will crush you gave quite some lessons to the germans and. That the least you could do is not wait for the children to steal the apples and pears for to bring to us the apple and so you know. What this is but by the end of 2 years we have the total village working for us. Lilian robbins director of the Children Center and in a staff described in a speech in the us in 1987 what reintegration meant to a displaced child. As nations negotiate new borders reparations and economic benefits that world only knows the consequences of exploitation of National Greed of war. He can grow up to become a bitter disillusioned selfish adult interested only in what works to his own advantage but such a child can also become the most important contributor to building a new world where International Cooperation is the cornerstone. It is the responsibility of the United Nations to clear the way for him but what way will this be. At the beginning we didnt know the facts then after the year after 2 years we felt its far to security we could give those children not enough that this should be should this stage of the navy. You know help to leave. To leave germany should be brought up 1st summer air river just anxious to get out of germany. Germany was like a graveyard for i decided then that i never want to go back to that country that betrayed me and i never wanted it will work when rod did what it could to help the children in their future life it is shoot id cards and try to find relatives it commissioned an american photographer to take pictures of every child in dust off. Pictures of a lost childhood. The search for family members helped repatriate non jewish children to poland. Many found at least one of their parents. If. I had applied to emigrate to the United States. A message from the red cross came 2 weeks before my departure that my mother was looking for me. She wrote come back my son. And so instead of going to america i went back to poland but i went back out of love for my mother but nothing in the world could have changed my mind that it was you. The jewish orphans could no longer hope for a mothers love their search for relatives was almost always in vain. The camera team came to in the staff together with a photographer a chance of that changed the fate of the young. Using camera crew came very much like what i see here it was smaller i guess and film the children i went to the cameramen and said to him you know i have a brother in america is a photographer very very unknown maybe you know him and he left. Americas big country i say brother of majlis name is martin. As soon as i said it he jumped off his seat. He said he is one of my best friends i had dinner with him through the village there goal. Or went to his brother in new york and became a camera man himself but stories like his border on miracles. After the war ended friend said made it 420 young survivors on one Rise Initiative but most of the others had no prospect of a new home the situation seemed hopeless. In every over desmonte the question of us where was where when we call. A little boy expressed fears of poorly he said. It was chair over that we lost our hold it was 12 the last of parables but the worst sin is we have no call to the real state law is really no overt in nobody really knows about. And nobody wanted. Nobody wanted to know you can feel sorry for somebody but do nothing about it. I thought i dont want people said this already i want. Hunching be done for the people people who are not nothing was done for the people there are still many years and years afterwards there was still the peak cams and gemini across countries that want to accept any survivors. A report to president truman describe the situation of the jewish survivors quite bluntly they have been liberated more than military sensed and actually in their particular problems to this time of the being given attention to any of presleep of the stent consequently they feel that they who are in so many ways the 1st and worst victims of naziism are being neglected by their liberators trumans response was a december 22nd 1945 directive making immigration to the United States easier in the mean time progress also started to be made in dust off one of the 1st children to girl from gloucester in the store as a group of 42. 00 children. To end a month dont mean that anybody is under 16 good going to invent us in the midst of the many. From a national from. Them this is the. Many god set on the field a member of the natural strain. Of chancers on the. 45 1st. Who the ever thought of the jewish boy. Comes from this movies primitive image. In england. While leslie and later also martin were flown to britain having remained in dust off but then he found a distant cousin in the us and emigrated there in 1906. He only saw his friend lesley again decades later. President truman also suggested setting up selfgoverning camps for jewish adults their residents soon organized Education Health care and religious Services Skills in handicrafts and for agriculture were also taught it was in keeping with the aspirations of the Zionist Movement which called for a political solution to the situation of the jews in europe their own state. A new chapter also began for indus doff in february 1946 a group of young jews arrived accompanied by zionist activists the magically seen their goal the emigration to palestine. Greater fisher was impressed by the determination and independence of the young people what set them apart from the others was that they acted consciously as a collective and thus were prepared for life in the cube roots in their future home. There are. Very. Oh. Oh oh is there a. Among the new arrivals in india was a group of young jews from poland they gave themselves the name. Which means stone worked in hebrew they tried to return to poland but antisemitism in Eastern Europe forced them to say good bye to their old lives. If we find jews here will impale them on the pitch court thats something i heard. It was impossible to stay there because the locals didnt like jews. There was a network of jewish organizations in poland. That put together groups gratian to ericks israel. The Promised Land or theres real. Your. Own managed by people who came from the milord. From woods we made our way in groups. We arrived in germany with all sorts of names and ages for example i had the papers of a 60 year old man. And you know that. I dont think everything was legal. Not all our no. History as a group as it exists today essentially started in interest off my 3 lark quotes im up for lobbying those. In the summer of 1946 in does dawn became a center for jewish children alone sophia and janish packed their bags together with the other non jewish children and those who did not want to emigrate to palestine they moved to a new center near prien. South of munich. Was still in charge of interest off but was limited to Logistical Support in collaboration with International Jewish associations teachers magically heem from palestine took over education. The a turn group became like a new family for the survivors with shared ideals and goals but palestine was currently still under british mandate immigration was illegal and difficult while they waited to leave interest off the youngsters prepared for the big journey. Brass finally the day came to set off for israel its actually got a lot there its. A new another national i mean we the group from in their stores were spread across 2 large groups of. Fear they were heard exodus 947. The trip from indus doff to israel was top secret. We were taken to a large warehouse in the south of france. For 4500 jews got there to go to israel by ship. The exodus was a cruise for 400. 00 passengers. But your money show you were shattered by british ships from the very 1st day. Of eve during the day we had a high level low deck. We only went up on deck to get some air in the evening airplanes flew over us at some point we realized that they had discovered us. Big girl our ship was seized and towed to haifa ferry for. Your annual get there we were put on prison ships that took us to cyprus. Lets look official. After being intercepted by the navy the illegal immigrant ship exodus 947. 00 entered haifa harbor under escort. As the illegal image of our job was right our demand to the british was always the same. You took us out of israel take us back there. Together with the passengers of the exodus of a money miriam now home young and the other members of the a 10 group fell victim to the restrictive british immigration policy they were taken to transit camps in cyprus or sent back to europe their odyssey caused International Outrage only a year later after the founding of the state of israel on may 14th 1948 did they reach their destination together they founded the keyboards where they still live today. The Children Center in dust off finally closed its doors in september 948 around a 1000 children found refuge here for a few weeks or months. That autumn later fischer accompanied a group of young jews to their new life in canada. She continued her social work and helped them to integrate the children she helped all her life were the only ones she would ever have. Been. Levanon in the grip of hizbollah the song. Called party of god controls large parts of the politics and society. The founders be explosions on the shore of the situation in the entire country has taken a dramatic turn the Political Climate is unstable the country held hostage no not close of play a certain spot w. In the. Climate change. Places. People claim what ideas do they have of their future. The local news dot com for their grocery bill making it. Clear cut or. Tough it is for me it. Is for. Me told it is for. The. 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