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Article: `KINDERTRANSPORT' EXPLORES STORY OF OFTEN FORGOTTEN VICTIMS OF HOLOCAUST.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- April 18, 1997
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After teenaged Martin Birn emigrated to Philadelphia from Germany in 1940, he did what he could to make money.
``I caddied at a golf course, sold pretzels and delivered papers,'' Birn says. ``This was after the start of World War II and it wasn't very cool to be a German. I still had a fairly strong accent and my fellow caddies would ask me where I came from. I told them I was French. So they called me `Frenchy.' ''
It was the tactic of a 14-year-old boy who had developed a knack for survival in dangerous circumstances. While Germans were not especially welcome in the United States in 1940, Jews were even more unwelcome in Nazi Germany. Martin Birn was a ...