"She did not speak a word of English and her isolation was emphasised in that 'she was the only girl in the group of Holocaust survivors,' observed Harold Jackson. He was keen to help but Anna was desperately shy. 'It was a difficult situation because they couldn't talk to me,' Anna recalls. 'Some of them spoke German, which terrified me.' She was even more puzzled to find that Tante Anna, Paula, and Bertha were German. Unlike her brother, Arthur, who was soon firm friends with Sam Oliner and the other Polish concentration camp boys, sensitive Anna felt her early weeks at Bunce Court 'were filled with silence and loneliness'" (350).
~ D. Cadbury
The School That Escaped the Nazis
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