Why are you packing our winter clothes blam It's spring We don't know how long we'll be gone Always think ahead And please leave that ball behind Is it really War Maurice hintele why are you just standing there We've got to leave Start packing 5
We lived in Brussels the capital city of Belgium At home we spoke Yiddish but in the streets we spoke French For months the newspapers had been warning about the possibility of a German attack My parents didn't hide the dangers from us We knew how the Nazis treated Jewish families like ours Taking their possessions beating them humiliating them and sending them to concentration camps And now on May 10 1940 the Nazi army and air force had invaded our country 6
Paris I have business contacts who will help us Where are we going I always wanted to see Paris But not like this Here's the station 7