As a part of their plan to enslave the peoples of Europe, the Germans have methodically

destroyed the intellectual leaders and educational facilities of the conquered countries.

They gave particular attention to the destruction of scientists, students, and teachers.

In fact, anyone who might in the future provide leadership for the revival of the victims of their

aggression.

The world is falling apart around me and my prime concern is to get to get to a school.

I had shelter and I had food, more than plenty of food. The people liked me. I liked them. My language was

getting passable, what I called pedestrian language, but I didn't go to school.

School was important for Hannah from a young age.

Her parents repeated the same advice over and over again, they would always say.

But you know nobody can take away from you.

That was hammered and hammered into our head all the time.

So I spoke to the farmer and I said I really really really would like to

go to school and she says well you can go to school so I did apply to different boarding schools.

And I told them that if they give me free education,

I would clean the school premises, whatever they needed, either the blackboard

or the classrooms and the toilets and windows, whatever needed, I would exchange my hands, my labor for an education.

One school agreed.

It was a really upper- finishing school, which meant that girls from better families had to learn how to be good hostesses. They learned about

hygiene, they learned about child care, they learned about folding napkins, they

learned about cooking,

some what little Danish history,

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