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Well, I saw it happen time and time and time again, but neither my mother nor I ever were victims of these and in the beginning of 1943, a man came to the house that I remember vividly and he asked my mother whether she wanted to save my life,...
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Well, I saw it happen time and time and time again, but neither my mother nor I ever were victims of these and in the beginning of 1943, a man came to the house that I remember vividly and he asked my mother whether she wanted to save my life, because things were going from bad to worse, and if she did want to save my life, I would simply have to go away with him, and he said he'd be back that afternoon or that evening for her answer. So we went to see the Exsteen family with whom we were so, so friendly and we talked it over and they must have heard some things, too, because they said to my mother, you know, "Let Paul go." This sounds all so easy and cut and dried, but it wasn't, you know. They even said that I could use their name because I couldn't go away under the name of Schwarzbart. So that day I became Paul Exsteen, a good Belgian, and the man came back and my mother didn't have to get too much clothes ready, because our little bundle was always ready, as I said, but she had... See less
Highlights:
Schwarzbart tells how he went into hiding with help from the Jewish Underground