Romi Cohn - Fighting for protection from the Nazis
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Romi Cohn - Fighting for protection from the Nazis
Romi Cohn - Fighting for protection from the Nazis
Transcript: Please, let us here till tomorrow morning, we will leave. In the day we can find some other place, but in the night we can't hang out in the street. No, [inaudible]-- those are their word, out! So I was, I saw that we can't reason with them, I started to cry. I went on the floor, and I begged them please, let us stay here till the morning. No way! So I got up, I go into the kitchen, open the drawer, and picked out the biggest butcher knife there was. And I took that knife in my hand, and I walk into the room, to confront him. You want to kill me? Here's the knife -- you going to kill me in front of your father, in your father's house, but you're not going to turn me over to the Nazis. Here's the knife -- you can do that now. When he saw that, he mellowed down -- he says, alright, can to stay, so we stayed until morning.
Transcript: Please, let us here till tomorrow morning, we will leave. In the day we can find some other place, but in the night we can't hang out in the street. No, [inaudible]-- those are their word, out! So I was, I saw that we can't reason with them, I started to cry. I went on the floor, and I begged them please, let us stay here till the morning. No way! So I got up, I go into the kitchen, open the drawer, and picked out the biggest butcher knife there was. And I took that knife in my hand, and I walk into the room, to confront him. You want to kill me? Here's the knife -- you going to kill me in front of your father, in your father's house, but you're not going to turn me over to the Nazis. Here's the knife -- you can do that now. When he saw that, he mellowed down -- he says, alright, can to stay, so we stayed until morning.