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[Text: Amalia Boe-Fishman shares memories from her life in hiding during the Holocaust. She remembers praying before her meals with her foster family and her foster father's shaving routine. She was especially excited about the birth of her foster brother.]
Amalia Boe-Fishman: Well, I don't know what I remember or what I was told, but I think one incident I do remember, we were always sitting around a midday meal around the table of the six children and myself, and the father and the mother. And then we had to say a prayer before the meal and hold hands, and the children always would sort of fool around a bit. But anyhow, they did it, and then we would eat. And then after that, a passage out of the Bible would be read. And then we prayed again. And after that, my foster father, who was a policeman, which again, was a very risky thing to be, a policeman hiding a Jewish child. Anyhow, he had an midday break. He would sit at the dining room table in this very, very small house. Everything happened in a small dining room. He would be shaving. And then I was, you know, it was a big old-fashioned razor blade, and I was told I was not allowed to bump the table. So that I can remember. And I can remember when my youngest foster brother, born in 1942, when he was born. And that was an exciting event for me. He was born at home, and well, he sort of became the other doll, I guess. So I can't remember too much. Many things have been told after war, so I don't know if I remember it or if that's something that, incidents that have been told.
