[Interviewer] Do remember talking with them about leaving? [Lynn] Oh yes, oh yes.
I remember my mother, you know again as I said, she explained things, and when she'd sit down
and say you know 'I don't want you to be away from me,' but you know, but to say basically...we knew
as young children. We knew to save our lives we had to leave, you know, we had to get out
of there. I mean that was sort of the primary thing -- get out, any way you can. Now of course
we didn't realize that we wouldn't see our parents again. [Interviewer] How did they arrange it,
do you know? [Lynn] Well my you know, I was on one of those children's transports to England
and that I'm sure, I don't know if you know but that was arranged by the Quakers in England,
they actually arranged those children's transports. So they were the ones who,
I don't know you know how my parents found out about this, no I don't know how they found
out about also I don't know how they you know, how they arranged for my sister, I don't know,
but I know that they told me that I would be going on a children's transport to England
where I would be safe.
[Interviewer] What did that feel like for you in England?
[Lynn] You know, it's interesting because my one thought, I mean, I was very upset when I
stopped hearing from my parents, okay, but my one thought was gratitude to my parents
that they let me go. I really, I mean I was, you know 13 years old at the time, 12, 13 years old,
and I really truly do not remember any emotion.
My one overwhelming feeling was gratitude to my parents, really,
I mea,n a complete understanding that they saved my life by letting me go.
I remember talking to each other about this, and you know, saying how, you know, we talked about our
childhood, I mean you know about our lives in Austria and where we were from and all that, but mostly
we've talked about the fact that we were grateful to our parents for saving our lives.