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The atmosphere became increasingly ominous and the family tried unsuccessfully to leave the country. Finally, it became possible for Jewish children to leave Germany unaccompanied by their families. Inge felt frightened and happy at the same time. She claims to have been particularly pleased that she was sent to live with a foster family in an English city some distance from her sister and brother. The foster family was kind and accepting. When letters arrived from home, the child diligently replied; however, her parents’ plea that their daughter ask the foster family to request visas for her mother and father was something Inge ignored.

She felt ashamed and guilty about this, but she so valued being accepted that she wanted to forget the old home relationships in Germany and her foreign roots. She could not bear the possibility of her parents arriving; furthermore, she desperately feared that her request for their visas would be rejected by her foster family. Life was becoming quite pleasant and she felt “at home”; nevertheless, the secret guilt was intense and became even stronger when the letters from Germany ceased. After the war, documentation made quite clear her parents’