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Golda's Stories of the Holocaust Part I - Time Section 2 – Ghetto Chapter C – The rope from bed sheets A woman that I hide inside her home helps me
to escape through the window. One night I went to a deal of diamonds and dollars at
the home of a friend of mine named Vladislav Polak. He lived far away, in an
area that I didn't know. An antisemitic neighbor of him, which he warned me of
her, saw me on my way back home, and informed on me immediately to a patrol of
two German policemen. They saw a girl walking alone in the night, identified
me and started to chase me. I entered the stairway of a building in order to
hide. The two Germans chased me into the building. I climbed rapidly upstairs and knocked on all the
doors. One woman opened for me. I said in panic: "The Germans are chasing me.
There is not a choice, you must help me". The woman allowed me to enter. In spite of the pressure I did not lose my nerves. I
thought rapidly of a way out. I went to the closet and I took out sheets. I tied rapidly three sheets to a long rope and lowered
them from the window. I told her courageously: "Hold the edge"! And I slipped down. I escaped a second before the Germans arrived. I entered the house simply in order to rescue myself. They would kill me immediately. They used to kill people simply in the street. |