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Show Rose (1/25/83) page 4 Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R number of people it was&eid that 'it couldn't happen to i better Jews' ••• you know, if it had to happen, without any concept of what was going on there. We're talking about the early days when they were just getting pushed around. When it really got serious, and I don't mean that they were going into death camps, but when they were being isolated already for what was ~t~i considered war camps and stuff like that, the word sifted through the community where I was, if not the whole Jewish community all over the world, then, I think, we started losing the sense of it happening to 'German Jews'. By that time it had gone too long as well, and they were Jews getting pushed around. Am I making myself clear? Well, that's when we talked not in terms of mixed feelings because they were German Jews, but because they were Jews. Then they became Jews, they became real, living Jews to us, and that's about where we were in the situation ••• When would you say, or how long did it take for that to happen? God, I can't tell you. All I can tell you is the growth of the feeling, and I can't put a date on it. That's interesting. How comfortable were you with the non-Jews in the community here at that time? What were the attitudes you were feeling or sensing? I was pretty well involved with the Gentile society at that time because of my profession. You know, when you go out looking for customers the only way you do it is through social contacts and I didn't have a big business in the Jewish community; there weren' that many Jews around here to make a living out of, so I mixed around with them. Generally, in the area in which I moved, there |
