:16:03
l think everybody was petrified.
:16:06
I aIso remember very vividIy
that they were beating up the rabbi.
:16:11
And they had fetched the Torahs
out of the synagogue.
:16:16
And I think they were trampIing on them.
:16:28
l took my bicycle
and went to school as always.
:16:33
There was no Jewish business
that l passed...
:16:36
...that wasn´t broken into.
:16:40
The merchandise was either on the street...
:16:42
...or looted completely.
:16:47
As I got cIoser to schooI...
:16:49
...I saw huge piIIars of smoke...
:16:53
...coming from the sections...
:16:55
...where the two big synagogues
in Frankfurt were.
:16:58
And l saw that they were on fire.
:17:04
Our schooI happened to be just opposite
on the street where the synagogue was.
:17:10
l was dragged out
with the stream of children.
:17:12
Everybody went to the playground...
:17:15
...to watch these flames.
:17:21
And suddenly somebody said:
:17:23
"´There´s a Jew!
Let´s throw her on the fire as weII! "´
:17:28
l don´t know how l got home.
l still don´t know today how l got home.
:17:32
And when I got home
my mother was absoIuteIy shocked.
:17:35
My father had been arrested.
:17:41
My father was quite an outspoken person.
:17:46
When they came to Buchenwald...
:17:47
...and they took away
all the men´s braces and shoelaces...
:17:51
...he protested and said,
´´You can´t treat these old people like this. ´´
:17:55
So they made an exampIe of him.
They beat him to death...
:17:59
...in front of everybody...