Welcome to The Way Home Podcast. I'm Josef and this is Mahmoud. In today's podcast we will be talking about a time when we had to act like adults.
Yep! As Refugees we encountered many dangerous situations, but how we responded is what really mattered.
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That can be hard. Is there one specific example of a time when you had to step up?
Well, as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, I had a lot of challenges. My father was traumatized in a concentration camp, so I had to step up to protect my little sister.
After our ship returned to Belgium in 1939, my mother, sister, and I tried to escape the Nazi Regime by fleeing to France. In 1940 the Nazi's caught up to us and forced my mother to pick which one of her children had to go to a concentration camp.She couldn't choose, so I offered myself, so my little sister could live.
That sound really hard. I'm sorry you had to do that.
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What about you, Mahmoud? Did you have a time when you had to act like an adult?
Yes. When we left Syria in 2015, our goal was to get to Germany. To do that we had to get from Turkey to Greece in a dinghy with many other refugees. Our ship popped on rocks, and my mother, sister, and I were separated from my brother and father. We were stranded in the open sea, with fake life jackets. My mother was struggling to stay a float and hold my little sister. When I saw a passing dinghy I tried to get them to allow us on it, but we wouldn't have fit. They allowed my baby sister on board with them and I haven't seen her since.
Wow, that was very brave of you. I hope she's okay.
Me too. We will keep looking for her. That's all the time we have left. See you next time!
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