Testimony Segments: Yetti tells how she got false papers | The Florida Holocaust Museum — Transcript

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1. 0:01anyway so I decided I have to find a job
2. 0:04to work for the Germans so this way
3. 0:08maybe i' be able to get some food or
4. 0:12something so so I A girlfriend of my
5. 0:16says I'll take you with me I found a job
6. 0:19like that so we went there and what did
7. 0:22they think we were doing they made us
8. 0:24clean windows and things like that like
9. 0:27I knew how to clean a window don't
10. 0:30and
11. 0:32finally uh I noticed that one German
12. 0:37there would there was stationed there
13. 0:39the the the soldiers not SS or nothing
14. 0:42but regular soldiers which eventually
15. 0:45had to go to the to the Russian front
16. 0:50you know and this man kept following me
17. 0:53from room to room and I was kind of
18. 0:56scared and he noticed that I'm
19. 0:59frightened he says why are you scared of
20. 1:01me so I said to him what do you mean I
21. 1:06says I'm Jewish and you're a German you
22. 1:08could take out your gun and shoot me
23. 1:10nobody will blink an
24. 1:12eye and he was
25. 1:15very after that he couldn't sleep it
26. 1:18kept prying on
27. 1:21him and then he comes to me and he says
28. 1:24isn't there a way he says you look like
29. 1:28a German girl who in Heaven's name would
30. 1:31know that you are Jewish he says if you
31. 1:34could just have a certificate or a
32. 1:37passport or
33. 1:38something is there such a way that you
34. 1:41could do I says yes probably but I says
35. 1:44I we don't have any
36. 1:45money so he says to
37. 1:48me I'm going back to Germany for Ur and
38. 1:52one week I be
39. 1:55back and I will bring you money and and
40. 2:00he did he came back and gave me
41. 2:04money and a
42. 2:07cross and he says go buy yourself a a
43. 2:12birth certificate
44. 2:15whatever so I told my mother and my
45. 2:18mother was very happy she says at least
46. 2:21one of us will survive she said and if
47. 2:24anybody is should survive it should be
48. 2:27you because you will make it I was a
49. 2:29very beautiful child no matter how
50. 2:32skinny I got or whatever uh and I was
51. 2:36developed like a woman you know but once
52. 2:39I start losing weight I wasn't so
53. 2:42developed so my
54. 2:46mother says go and find somebody so my
55. 2:51girlfriend told me who to go to and I
56. 2:55went and the guy sold me a a passport
57. 2:59with which my picture didn't fit into it
58. 3:02so I says oh I say the picture fell off
59. 3:05and it got lost you know as long as I
60. 3:07have a piece of
61. 3:09paper and
62. 3:12then so I asked him why did you do that
63. 3:17so he says to me maybe if I save your
64. 3:21life God will save
65. 3:26mine so you see
66. 3:38there was always somebody who came to
67. 3:42help through the whole time that I was
68. 3:45surviving