Lucy Glaser Merritt - July 8, 1991
Parents
Telling, telling youthat they were leaving for the States.
No, they didn't leave for the States. Uh, a quotadidn't come up and it was in August. I managed to get a temporary quota forthem to come to England. So they came to England. They joined me in England.Their quota still hadn't come up, the quota didn't come up 'til September bywhich time it would have been too late.
So they came, when inAugust? Do you remember when?
In August, two weeks before the war started. Yeah,it was, it was touch and go.
So they too went bytrain through, through Germany.
Yeah, that was the only way to go.
Did your father suspectthere was going to be a war?
Well, he suspected that uh, a catastrophe wascoming. His older brother had always talked about it. They thought interms-because Hitler was always talking about conquest. But what they thoughtis that he would lose right away. But he did much better than what uh, they hadhoped.
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