In the way this will mean its not my father. And. My system. And thats the and that im the 2nd child and then the man finds out and its the man another advantage of this and then now from the way the commute. The family together and then the from the magic. Of the movie you know what i really feel is to find it. You know in any man from home and to me means im not there just phase 3 q. You know. We were best friends. And we did lots of things together he was the leader i was a follower. It was very nice. Up on. The war. 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. Being together with lesley in the camps but but i do remember the day. That was. The allies 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 schroeder started marching. And bet that that wasnt that. Funny enough i was almost my and now a much anymore and then some other focus but i just turned up from a Different Group too much and joined in the us if you if you felt you were shut right away so it which important to go. He people up. So. He was between my brother and i kind of have to stay up if you can manage to shut your dad away so they save me my life in my own ways it. Went on days and days and days they marched us. And all of a sudden hum looking sort of ahead of intervention i can still 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 dead says run away its that im away and the tapping so quick this the 10 say oh just asked and they let the 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 maybe from 94520 may prove the day and the uns hiding in the us for most of those and then almost. The guy comes up to me like john says to me i jewish. This and this he says shall know my muslim jew. Indeed this of course. I was at a loss. On this causes of business on a road in bavaria. And i was just one of them for a 1st few days there are babies by the u. S. Army theyre giving us food theyre giving us and theyre charcot it. And after 3 days is starved 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 where ever they could find a roof over their heads. Theres a privilege though i was of forced labor at b. M. W. And munich and the ticket cold as i. For taking it out. 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 true of the whole. 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 a great to britain in 1989 her parents were murdered in the trip link a concentration camp. At the end of the war she volunteered with. It over 12008. 00 workers from almost every nation. Clayton fisher was part of team 182. 00. Thats 6 people or 8 people from different nationalities there put into law this a. To go to germany. And look for a company that children then started to look for a facility to open the children said. The american on movie event the americans are all. For us cluster isnt a store of. Clear. The industry offers a catalyst close completely unsuitable for the purpose for all to do for core Children Center. 10 beds. So we decided to start the Childrens Center there. The church. Has really cleaned out the plays. And so on july 11th 1905 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 specifically intended for children. Were camp. Was a dirty word to me i said im not interested in any camp un medics came there and and said their try this shit is camp 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 can stay here. If you said there was a drinking and Everything Possible that we werent supposed to see. So she took us to endless doff you does that of only. Pressboard we had was the American Army so they would. Go on a base it was in america truck so. Somehow you got. To meet a store and there were not just jews there was also. A lot of. Polish other slavic people. You know thought you know is it. Safe for me to sleep she killing. Before we had been assigned to a large farm or. A mother worked in the fields of the lifeboat no eve. Mother died in 1945 i think in february. So we were brought to interest off. Then mrs fisher deceived us. She greeted all the children who arrived there. So she is done with them to go. After obama the whole time i was just trying to hold on to my sisters skirt so she wouldnt look too far away. But the who clashed it took it but it was a monastery so there were archways and big staircases that lead to the upper floor. Oh yeah i still remember very well how it back over to when we ran down that. New a pony. 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. My legs were bleeding. The 1st thing. To give them force to give the closing which was to focus on the children would. Take blood from god. So we had somebody stand by that as the roman said you dont have to take bread you will get bread to everyone. But i saw some of those youngsters now 3040 years later so of them still take that. Piece of the pillow in order to make sure that there will be a next really. I remember having. To thank the soup. The mcquaid from the soup. This market for tomorrow morning. Some stole. They grabbed hold plates of food and hid them under the tables of us though 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 i spent in a south the only thing i want to do that rest of my life is eat and sleep of the just eat in sleeve thats all i want to do we had very high stead thats we had to eat this foxes for you had a dad live over and. Developed it. To a table and all this one called a person with the children but you know that you are very hungry you dont always take the tub or to take. The fork and spoon. You just take your head in. The it says that and some of those sing. Along with the head for us. Is fully enclosed as i was very day cause before that i was reading once before or through one before read out i think its a wash not even bid our ship them so we could choose a dress or trousers that everything was stacked on shelves and each child could choose what to wear. We have to be very innovative it says closing. The baby closing. The boys and girls we taught him to make their own tarsus and their own skirts from army let you know which we got from the home. Of that material which was the flag material which turned out the nazi flag was that. There are huge rolls of blue and white cotton material which the germans used. As they make clothes for the babies and the smart children designed at heart 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 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. It can be like home. Home was. But in fact save. The Queen Elizabeth docking of other unheard of of many 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 saying good. 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 will 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 trying to get people going terribly young boys in a terrible state tell me traumatized i have 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. Im never going to end. I find the perfect marriage. The perfect wife. Why couldnt they. Hear her here 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. The separation of their parents off the smaller sisters and brother this. You must understand those who survived in this special ed teachers church. Really extraordinarily strong people their will to survive blocked out absolutely as was the visit to survive and the though they choose to live a block out absolutely after this if you are recovering. 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. And not. Have to own that. More than thats the kind of man you know and the thing i remember very well it was just his process of being normalized and getting to feel normal again being human beings. You have to move you stretch to him it wasnt like i couldnt speak any more 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. Any i. E. It good. 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. A little do you remember the mcalary played or to last decades 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 pictured under the arcades with. Me after all the agony during the war we were doing well we were able to start over childhood all over again just. Got showered whoever wanted to could learn to play the guitar or the violin but we could choose anything yet and then there was the atmosphere we discovered American Music with music that was completely unknown to us. In that piece saying if there was a theater. There was a small stanch is that 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 miss. Because you did this we did what children do if you played soccer or watched movies when on hugs or shit i said thats what. I mean was it to the servants assume the life is possible and i assume that today at the cuckoo much succeeded to the day after. 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 return e. S. 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 do you wish invention there one problem that originated long before in those off long before their freedom as that nationality is then get along with each other 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. Lets rip them. Young boy my age i know a young guy much younger but bigger than me everybody is bigger. And. Cursed me out and called me as shit and nasty word 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 vixen a treat so relieved nailed. It a conversation came the next day some a group of jewish chose the rest. And then the girls. Heard that they said they would not stay this jewish children in one place that are jews tell the people there the sutters had horns their fate it would kill them all so i gave under their side and said we must be a jewish. So we told him we are choice you can knock to max and it is clear you of those children this started crying and charged in the need struck possible and you are good people and you helping us it took us months it took us months every day to grow over the same story that. There are 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 or the broils had already their pockets full of stones and restored the stones of the population and we take souls he said if you see anybody on the way and only stands there but this is hardly fair and this is how we found to take him there. That is a german came and complained that the children were stealing his articles. More dish put out the up. Then mrs 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. That the least they 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 somewhat to this is that 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 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. 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 hardest security we could give those children not enough that this should stay in germany. You know health 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 go back when ra 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. Every case. 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 poor sick or you see 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 she left it with 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 india staff together with a photographer a chance of that changed the fate of the young boer use a camera crew came. In was fight or die was smaller i guess and filmed the children i went to the cameramen and said to him you know i have a brother in america is a photographer very well known maybe you know him and he left. Americas big country i think is brother of majlis name is martin moon. 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 to resettle. 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 france said made it 420 youn