01:39

Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Innsbruck

2008-08-21

Then we were sent to the children's colony. there were 200 children, mostly from poor parents, who needed to recuperate... We were there around six weeks ... there - or was it only three weeks. I can’t remember. - Anyway, they were there and ate well and so on. And we of course - ate with the kids, on these big benches. - When they got something, they didn’t like, they said: "Nit fehl, nit fehl“ or when it was chocolate pudding "Fehl, fehl“ that’s what we said many times. And with Ilse - we were not allowed to speak, - I tried sign language, like this. Then ... we thought that Ilse still had her two parents, but not me. And then they said once - Once Ilse was examined in Rotterdam -, she had everything, she could have left ..., should have. So she - on all the suitcases it said ‘Ilse Brüll - New York’ I still remember that. ? But the parents didn’t come - My uncle stayed because of business - you know what that's like. He thought nothing could happen to Ilse at the Sister’s - but that wasn’t true. Ilse was the only Jewish girl in town. Only Jewish girl.