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Margo Young

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Germany

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http://avoyagethroughtime.wordpress.com

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At the age of 15 I read Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” which clearly pointed out that Hitler wanted to kill all the jews in Germany. That plus the discriminations which had started Germany, convinced me that there was no future for any Jew in Germany and that all of us had to leave Germany which had been my home and that of so many generations before me.

I left my home town, Hamburg at the end of August, 1938, just a few days after my 18th birthday by myself. The first chapter of my book describes my arrival by ship in New York. I considered it a wonderful adventure and now, about 70 years later, I am still adventurous.

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We Don't Want Jews Here: How I Coped

I'd boarded the R.M.S. Britannic seven days earlier in South Southhampton, England, October 17,1938. I'd turned eighteen just two months beforfe.

When I was only fifteen, despite the chaos churning around me our lives had not yet drastically changed. But I had read Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, and it certainly seemed to me Jews in Nazi Germany were doomed. It was clear that Hilter wanted to extermina