Baruch Spergel - February 4, 2008
Life in Sudetenland
So do you remember the Munich Con...
BS: Hmm?
Munich Conference?
BS: Yes, yes. Munich we all-we remember.
And what did you think about that?
BS: Hmm?
When that was happening...
BS: What we thought about?
...what did you think about it?
BS: We felt...
Did your parents discuss it at home?
BS: Hmm?
Was there discussion about it at home?
BS: Yes, yes. We were really unhappy about it and that was one of the reasons we left Reichenberg for Prague because they were already beginning to, to-we knew that, that uh, what its name? The Sudetengebiet didn't ??? would be...
ZF: Part of ???
BS:...??? to the Germans.
So you expected more trouble.
BS: Yes, we...
Your father or your family did.
BS: Mm-hm. I remember a day when all the Jews-practically-never all the Jews-most of them I think or-went to the railway station in order to get to Prague because they knew that the, that the Sudetenland would go to Germany. It was the, it was the agreement-the Munich Agreement, yes, and uh, and hundreds of Jews obviously left-most of the Jews who were recorded in ???. Some of the Jews stayed behind because they didn't have the means to get to-wander about in the world.
Do you remember learning about Masaryk?
BS: Hmm?
Masaryk?
ZF: Masaryk?
BS: The old Masaryk? Yes, I remem...remember him.
ZF: Masaryk Schule was the name of the...
BS: We went to, to Masaryk School later and then...
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