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| enough, this did not affect me as much as the fact that I had to leave there and was moved to another ward for TBC patients. I really thought then that I would never get out. What had happened was that a bright young female doctor had realised that I didn't have typhoid, but pleuritis interlobaris as it was called officially. I stayed in this ward for about 6 weeks and then was allowed to go home on the condition that I would rest and not kiss my baby, as the doctor said that my illness was tubercular. That was not a pleasant message. But I was glad to go home, and after a couple of months rest I was declared better, but I had put on a considerable amount of Kg's and my clothes no longer fitted me. The 5 years of the war were difficult to say the least. Things you thought you couldn't do without became scarce, and food was rationed. In the beginning we thought it couldn't last long, but it dragged on and rumours were rife. There was a curfew and radios had to be handed in. Our radio was removed and hidden in the factory, |
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while Fred constructed something from bits and pieces so we could listen to radio Oranje with earphones. The bombing raids were terrifying. When at work at Numan's Blikfabrieken, we had to go into the storage cellars each time there was a "luchtalarm". At first we were terribly scared, but gradually we got used to it and listened to the explosions to hear whether these were far away or close by. The factory girls found it a nice break from sitting at their machines and sang songs while sitting on the cement floor in the cellar. Then came the terrible persecution of the Jews. It started with the yellow star they had to wear, then they were barred from public places such as cinemas and theatres, swimming pools etc. Soon the Germans started rounding them up and sending them to Westerbork (30 KM from the German border). We were told that they would be put to work there, which would have been bad enough, treating them as slave labour, but it turned out to be only a halfway house to the gas chambers in Germany! |
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