The way and this will mean its not must be that and then my system was made and thats then that im the 2nd child and then the man finds us and if the man another mentioned is a name enough on the way the commune. Then the family together and then the for example then theres. Often the more you know what a few years to find. You know when youre done the man from home and to me means im not going to just face rick you. You know. We were best friends. And we did lot of things together there 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 only summer 945. 00. 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. Being together with lesley in the camps but but i do remember that much that was. Their lives were coming through started out by train and then lives were close enough so that they would shoot at the local motor of the train move. And surgery started marching. And that that was that. Funny enough i was startled was my hand not camacho anymore and. Some out of focus by this turn up from a Different Group too much joined up with us if you if you felt you were shut right away so it was important to go over keep people up so. He was between my brother and i kind of have to stay up if you can answer the shot you know that the way so this is a very my life in one 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 stand see what happened i see tanks never saw a tank of my life i was so tense coming for gathered that action and then they so did i says on the way down its that im away and he tapped in so quick yes there are tens of thousands and then i let the soldier says ok i did 10 because there was shooting going on that day a place did get behind a tent and then forget the day it was 23 and then maybe from 94520 made through the day and then hiding in the one of those folks or was known as the. Guy comes up to me like john says to me i jewish. Thats innocent he says now months now known by muslim jew. In the this of course. I was at a loss. Hundreds of thousands of prisoners on a road in the area. And i was just one of them for a 1st few days were babies by the u. S. Army they were giving us full theyre going to end their charcoal it and after 3 days as starved you had to go 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 tradition to go i was of forced labor at b. M. W. In munich that the ticket theres a cold as i. 14. 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. Are bad guys 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 love our own. Nobody no harm and the choice of the right kind of show to the. Greater fisher was determined to help these children who were left to their own devices she grew up as a child of a jewish family injected slovakia and a graded to britain in 1989 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. Us thats 6 feet for 8 people from different nationalities put into place. d to go to germany. And look for Company Children then started to look for a facility too often the children said to. The American Army of revenge the americans are all heres a quiz issue for us cluster isnt a store. Close. In the store is a catalyst cloister completely unsuitable for the purpose of art is it for core Children Center does it have the beds it has. So this is sad to start the Childrens Center there. The church. Has really cleaned up the plays. And so on july 11th 1945 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 1945 at least 11000000 displaced persons were distributed to around 700 camps in germany austria and italy. In does doff near done how was specifically intended for children. Birth camp. Was a dirty word to me i said im not interested in any camp un medics came there and and said there try this shit as camp if you dont like it here leave this discovery we were accommodated in the Doctors Museum in munich together with adults you. Then or miss fisher came and said you children can stay here. If you said there was drinking and Everything Possible that we werent supposed to see. So she took us to induce doff you does that of only. Pressboard we had was the American Army. If you go on a base it was in america truck so. Somehow you got. To win this war and there were not just jews there was also. A lot of. Polish other slavic people. On the. Street down church and. Yes you know i thought you know. Shes from the city p. G. But we had been assigned to a large foreign power. A mother worked in the fields of the lifeboat no eve. The mother died in 1945 i think in february 1. So we were brought to interest off. Then miss fisher deceived us. She greeted all the children who arrived there. So she is done with them to go yeah. The whole time i was just trying to hold on to my sisters skirt so she would be too far away. But the blue clash told him it like it but it was a monastery so there were archways and big staircases that lead to the upper floor. I still remember very well how it back over to when we ran down that. 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. My brain still. My body. My legs were. The 1st. Ross to give them force to give the closing which just a focus on the children would. Take that for good. So we had somebody stand by the dining room and say you dont have to take but you will get bread to everyone. That i saw some of those youngsters now 3040 years later so you still take that. Piece of the pillow in order to make sure that there will be a next really. A member having a potato soup. The mc read from this. Market for tomorrow morning. Some stole. They grabbed hold plates of food and hid them under the tables at the stove top but the tables in the monastery were huge i think 15 meters lot. And then we enjoyed it later under the table for the dead time must have been a self the only thing i want to do that this of my life is eat and sleep of the just eat in sleeve thats all i want to do we had very high standards we had to eat this foxes for you had a dad live 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 owe the steak the tub or to take a life and a fork in this. You just take your head in. The it says that and some of those. Long was saying he had for us in. Clean clothes and i was very close before i thought i was very big and once before or through one before it got i think its a 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. We have to be very innovative this is closing. They be closing. The boys and girls we taught them to make their own tarsus their own skirts from. Which we got from the home. Of that material which was the flag material which turned out the nazi flag was that. Their huge rolls of blue and white cotton material which the germans used. As they make clothes for debate this and the small children designed so that hearts and blue and bright little you know pens and the children looked adorable you know they looked like they were french sailors. After everything we went through in the war in their stores was paradise a paradise on earth. There were people who were there just for us miss fisher mr marx and the others became like parents to us. Can be like home home was. But in fact save. The Queen Elizabeth ducking of thought and on how to manage delegates of the United Nations general assembly. As 1st Lady Eleanor Roosevelt had already in 1039. 00 urged jewish refugee children from germany be admitted to the u. S. 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 during the year no mother no doctor ever seeing. Mainly the emotional part 2 to help them business stories if you had a problem you could always go to any one of them and they would solve it they they try to solve it for you i will never forget what they done the needs of done a very good job this summer because dont forget people may turn to be young boys in a terrible state and every traumatized i have this psychological problem saying 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 gave and. I find the perfect marriage. And the perfect wife. Why couldnt they. Hear her here i know where. 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 just south of the separation of their parents off the smaller sisters and for us this. You must understand those who survived and the special ed teachers church. Theyre really extraordinarily strong people their will to survive blocked out absolutely as was the visit to survive and the will they choose to live lick the block out absence of the 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. After that and more thats the kind of men you know and the thing i remember very well it was just just a process of being normalized or getting to feel normal again being human beings. You have to move his threat to him when it wasnt like i couldnt speak any more to me. But i was dead inside. I didnt want to speak any more 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. 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. A little better do you remember the macallan we played in action or to learn starkers above return to the games yes and i still remember at some point the memory came back with how we danced in front of the building that youre under the arcade with. Me for you and me after all the agony during the war we were doing well we were able to start over 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 that same if there was a theater. There was a small stanch that it was great fun of go there for the solo both of. Them some english they try to meet 2 teachers. Trades. And theyre doing some general schooling you know. Trying to make up something. What diminish oh yes you could have this goodness we did what children do if you played soccer or watched movies when on hugs or should i say thats what. I mean was it to defeat the 2 of them as so normal life as possible but im guessing that the day after the 3 much succeeded in that. 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. 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 i dont remember anything you know dramatic happening but. There were some tension there one problem that originated long before in those off long before their freedom as that nationality is then get along with a show that i remember one time i got into something again read some of the porsche. And some of my jewish. Comrades were very disapproving you know say. Blacks rip them. Young boy my age you 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 and. It was a piece of chocolate which was a big sweet treat so one evening. At a conversation came the next day so a group of jews chose the rest. And then the girls the polish girls heard that they said they would not stay this jewish chosen in one place that our jews were terrible people there this artist had horns and their slaves it would kill them all so i gave under their side and said we must be a judge. So we talked and be our choice you can not to mecca and it is clear you of those children this started crying and shouting than its not possible and you are good people and you helping us it took us months it took us months every day to grow all over the same story that. There were jewish people there catalyst people do there are kinds of. There are good people and bad people but to be them here who helped of. 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 broils has already their pockets full of stones to go to stores and the population and we take souls he said if you see anybody on the way and stands there but this is hardly fair and this is how we found to take their. Portion that is a german came and complained that the children were stealing his ackles. More dish it out the up. Then miss fisher 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 give them to them. Because other which will crush you gave quite some lessons to the german in. The least they could do is not wait for the children to steal the efforts and pears for to bring to us the apple and so you know somewhat to this is that by the end of 2 years we had 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 1947 what reintegration meant to a displaced child. As nations negotiate new borders reparations and economic benefits that child 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. What we will this be. At the beginning we didnt know the facts then after the year after 2 years we felt its hardest security we could give those children not enough that this should stay in germany even really should you know help them 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 want to roll back 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 immigrate 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. I went back out of love for my mother but nothing in the world could have changed my mind. 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 india staff together with the photographer a chance of that changed the fate of the young born use your camera crew came very much like what i was small at i guess and filmed the children i went to the cameramen and said to him you know i have brought it in america as a photographer very well known maybe you know him and he left. Americas big country i say brother of majlis name is martin moon. As soon as i say that he jumped off his seat. He said he is one of my best friends i had dinner with him through the trul