I had a German refugee friend; she went to school with me. They started coming [to Belgium] in 1933. Some of them had papers to go from Antwerp on to America, but they never did. Because they found the life so beautiful in a Jewish orthodox community, they said, “Why should we go on?” Unfortunately, they probably didn’t survive.
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