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hidden her again repeated their position that they
would not give up the child if the real mother
could not be found.
The prosecutor gave a long speech. He argued
that though the little girl was baptized, she had
remained the same Jewish child; that almost 95
percent of the Jews had been destroyed by the Nazi
murderers, including her parents. In such an extraordinary
situation of genocide, a brother or a
sister also had the right to bring up the child of a
murdered mother, for the child was their flesh and
blood, after all. The child, therefore, had to be
given over to the sister and brother of the dead
mother.
This time the court ruled that the child
should be placed in an orphanage for three
months and then the little girl must be given to
me as her guardian.
Even after the court decision we went
through a great deal of trouble. First of all, the
little girl kept crying that she wanted to go back
to her "parents"; secondly, the gentiles threatened
me with death if I would not give up to
them the "soul they had saved." To avoid danger,
we brought the child to our other sister
Chaye, a survivor, who lived quite far from us.
Later the little girl moved with Chaye and her
family to Israel, where they are living now.