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��'%&;\$Mted,' England is juat an-� :'v^iie*: temporary haven for them, whereas for five and alx years enforced wanderings under S*i masters took them lower and 'hjjwer and finally into the very Shadow of death in the gas chara-hera, their travels since VE day under UNRRA auspices have carried them up and   ever   higher Slohg the road to health, usefulness to themselves   snd   society end, H is hoped, eventually into {he lands which one day will be their permanent homes.
UNRRA welfare workers and doctors in the various DP Centers and special children's camps inside Germany have reported on these children since July, 1946. Ins hunt for relatives has never ceased. From time to time, the afctast and neediest youngsters were sent to Switzerland and other neighboring countries that could offer better food snd hospital facilities, for temporary care in order 4c save their lives. Last October these 158, who were orphans to the best of anyone's knowledge, were selected and flown by UNRRA in RAF planes from various parts of Germany to England to be boused st Wintershill Hall near Southampton where fthe Jewish Committee provides their
"Every child under our care is now alive only because of some fortunate accident," stated Dr. Friedman, director of Wintershill
Hall, during an interview with an UNRRA information officer. "For each of these 1*8 there were many thousands who did not survive. These few remain alive only through exceptional hardihood supported by lucky turns of circumstances or by rare little flashes of kindness in some guard or civilian."
Last October, there was a festive farewell party st an UNRRA children's center in the Bavarian Mountains. At Kloster Indersdorf, a small Bavarian village shout five miles south of Dachau, two hundred liberated children were being cared for by an UNRRA team. Housed in an ancient monastery nestling among the trees in an atmosphere of peace which seemed incredibly remote from the horrors of Dachau just serosa the hill, two hundred young concentration camp victims learned to eat snd then gradually to smile, laugh and play. On July 9th, the UNRRA team had taken over this site especially for the two hundred children. On October 9th, one hundred of them were giving a farewell party for the other hundred, fifty of whom were going off to Switzerland and fifty to England.
The dining-room was gay with improvised decorations but there was an undertone of ssdness, as well�a sadness that may well remain deep in the hearts of these youngsters forever. They sang their own songs, especially their chant "Tele of TrebHnka" � a chant which graphically depicts the horrors of the infamous death camp for which the song is named Once heard it can't be forgot-
ten, tee stag hsaats the ss H retoDs the brutal saga of the death of loved ones with its melody based on traditional folk songs to which these new words have been adapted.
The next  day,   October  10th, UNRRA nurses snd welfare officers wsrs ready to accompany each plane scheduled to fly the children to their new shelters. The agreement had limited the movement from Germany to Britain to those children who were under sixteen years, homeless snd orphaned and who had been in German concentration camps�in other words, the neediest UNRRA officials had carefully selected the children accordingly. On the day of departure, one boy had to be left behind and another selected to   replace him. A father arriving at Kloster Indersdorf, much to his   amazement  found   his  long-lost   son among the children there.   That meant the boy was no longer an orphan and he could not go. The father was torn between joy snd remorse. "Forget you have seen me," he finally begged the UNRRA official  He was willing to give up his son so that the boy might have a chance at a brighter future in Britain. But it was futile. The boy had to be left behind as the RAF planes soared into the air headed for England and a new kind of home and life for the others.
Each of the 163 orphans and former concentration camp victims at Wintershill Hall near Southampton, alive today only because of s series of fortunate accidents, has a strange story to telL Telling it and re-telling it seems to give them a sense of relief which they still crave. And their often amazingly mature appreciation of the meaning of the depths to which living had once been reduced for them gives the listener a good deal of hope for the future. In December, one 16-year old boy talking with an UNRRA visitor, stated: "Right away, when the Americans came I wanted to tell everything I had seen, everything I had done. I just had to tell it
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He makes small novelties�docs a nice business in them, too. But he normally allows his customers thirty or even sixty days to pay. In the meantime be has to pay his workmen every week, meet his power bills every month ... pay promptly for metal and wood and other raw materials to earn valuable discounts.
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to teQ my story over again . . This boy's last job at Buchenwakl had been throwing bodies into the crematorium furnaces.
Another boy explained: Towards the end in the camps I wee just a creature. I thought of nothing but food and how to keep alive. The Germans packed six of us in each bunk with our knees up. Every night two or three in s busk would die snd we would shove the corpses out on the floor, glad we had more room to sleep. Late March the American Army was driving into Germany and came near our camp, the storm troopers packed us into a train to move us eastwards. We went for days b that train without food. At last one morning they threw some bread in our car, but before I could grab a piece, American planes came over. They did know who was in the train and strafed it back snd forth, setting fire to the cars of petrol and to our car. The smoke choked me, I had to get out without finding any of the bread. There were deed sU around me, dead friends, dead storm troopers everywhere. Others were being burned to death in the ears ... But the only thing I really thought about or cared about waa that bread being burned in there snd I wanted H, and I couldn't get it"
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