Exhausted Jewish refugee children after their arrival from Germany at Harwich, Essex
When Hitler rose to power in 1933, Feige Mendzigursky, who lived in Leipzig, Germany, was eight years old. Though nationwide attacks on Jews, boycotts of Jewish businesses, and book burnings had become common, she remembered little except Nazi flags flying everywhere and ‘the SS parading, you know how they did with their goose steps...’. But she wasn’t particularly frightened.