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| | Granta: 'Churchill's Cigar' by Ian Buruma |
 | | Ten thousand Jewish children would be allowed to come to Britain, as long as they came without their parents, a condition of dubious magnanimity which traumatized many children for life. |
 | | My grandmother sometimes mentioned the names of former hostel children to me: Steffie Birnbaum, Lore Feig, Ilse Salomon, Michael Maybaum
She had kept in touch with them, and their children, wherever they were, in England, the United States or Israel. |
 | | One boy, Michael Maybaum, son of Rabbi Ignaz Maybaum, almost didn't make it on to the list, because the Schlesingers were worried that he might be too Orthodox and thus not 'fit in'. |
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