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I remember very clearly being woken up in the middle of the night
and saying they're coming to arrest Jablonski
who was a Jew who was one of the adults taking care of us.
And so we all ran down in our... whatever we were wearing,
I don't know if we had pajamas, but whatever we were wearing we ran down
and indeed there were 2 policemen on bicycles.
And there was Jablonski standing there next to him
and some of the older kids and he wanted them to come with them.
These were French police, French gendarmes, okay, who had come.
And... all of a sudden Jablonski... I think...
we were all making a circle around these policemen,
watching the scene.
All of a sudden Jablonski and the other 2 kids make a run for it.
They run and the policeman takes out his gun
and we grab, not the gun, but the hand of it,
so the policeman didn't know what to do.
Finally, I can still see him, he puts his gun back in the holster
and he says: "We'll be back."
And sure enough they came back, I think it was the 26th of August, 1942.
Were you there still? -Yes.
But this time I didn't hear them, they really came quietly, they did it right.
I mean, from their perspective of right, not from ours.
They came very quietly
and in the morning when I woke up
I found out that... I think about 10 people had been taken.
Including several of... 2 of the boys with whom I'd come from Berlin,
were taken by the French police.
So then what did you do? -Well, there's nothing much we could do.
They were taken because they were older.
They were rounding up Jews.
This was before the Germans arrived, this was all before the Germans arrived.
This was in August 1942.
And it turns out... I found out subsequently,
that some of the kids were released for various reasons,
but 6 were deported, of whom 2 survived.