Hugo Marom - February 8, 2008
Life in Bedford IV
No? You don't know what a paper route is? I get a bicycle from the shop...
Delivering newspapers?
...and I go to the railway station, I pick up something like fifty pounds of newspapers, bring them to the ???, write down on each one the address...different papers, people different ones...then I take my bag...my newspaper bag...
So you're a...
...and sit them in certain order...
...a newspaper boy
...and, and deliver newspapers and that's called a paper route and they paid between eight to ten shillings a week when our pocket money...ten shillings being half a pound sterling...our pocket money was six pence a week so it was an enormous contribution to both my brother and I because my brother didn't work, number one, and the amount of money that the bi...that the landladies received for billeting one boy was about ten or twelve shillings a, a week. So, I think it was below the...I don't know what you would call it...that the better off families wouldn't...they would, they would have I suppose if they had said that, "This was a nationalistic effort, do this for nothing," maybe they would have but because they paid this amount of money it was a...perhaps an insult in some way. They felt is was something like that. Um, as far as the general question was concerned I think Nicholas Winton's mother and him didn't find many Jewish families to take children so we find that there were some who already arrived...some of the children...German children who arrived already converted to England so it wasn't a problem for them and on the whole they were persecuted because of Judaism so it was a very nice way of joining the Church of England or whatever.
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