Joseph and his story continued

                  I can explain why it’s been forever since my last post. You see, we live where we can’t get Internet connection so we have to you a Verizon net card, and a little while ago the net card broke, which meant that I couldn’t blog. So now I’m blogging again!

    Back to Joseph.

          At one point, France started taking in pioneer children because they thought that it would make things better in Holland. Joseph left in April 1943 with his brother.

They were trying to make it to the American Army in Spain but were caught on the way.

   They had made it to Antwerp where they waited in a small little pub for a guide to Spain. While they were waiting two more boy’s showed up, then more, and more, then there were ten boy’s in the pub. the guide had made two trips but the boy’s didn’t know that the second time he was caught. So they waited and waited until some lady told a German guard that there were ten Jews in a pub. Thank goodness they all had papers. The papers said that they were Germans working in France, so the boy’s lied and said they were homesick and came home for a little while. They were put on a train to La Manche France, about twenty miles south of  Bologne.

  They worked in France for about eight months, receiving wages and feeling good about themselves. They were always in constant contact with the Westerweel group because they were allways taking people to the border.