Eugene Hertz, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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Hert z ( page f)) ~ r. H trr. K '?v. !j . :rs • ·- We would ha ve f i ghts and then everything was over . Two hours l ater we would be the best of f ri ends again li~e I was ltttle , li ke when I wa s a voung k i d . So , ther e wa s n ' t that grea t d i f fic ulty? ~o . Tobody had the ne r ve i n t~ose days to call ~Y dad a di r ty name . Beh i nd h t s bRc'l{ the r e we r e sorne t hat d i d be ca use there was a1wavs a l i ttle ant i- Sem itt s~ tn Germany , always . ~av I ask you s ome th i ngs (refering to ~ r s . qertz)? ~id you grow up i n th e s a~ e t own? ~To , another town • Do y ou generall y a gree wtth t he way he was describing the way he grew up? Did you feel t~e sa~e way? Did you see the same thing? Mrs. B We grew up with the same type of people just the same way, an~ 1-.re were-- called names li~e he was by the children, not the paren~ And h ow did y ou deal with it? What did you do? Yrs. E ~ ell, we'd have one of the guys come over. ~e were girls and the rJ)er ~ d o ~t'\~ ,·.++a boys wgy~g g~fe~e us, you ~now. ~"r. K Mr. !1 Mr. K Mr. H Did you find, for instance, in the school that you were going to, or t he gymnasiumf- Bid you find that the teachers treated Jewish students d ifferently than non-Jewish students? I wouldn't say that they treated us different, but they also had a little anti-Semitism in them. They didn't like to give a Jew­ish boy an inch at all times. We were used to it and it didn't bother us. You just felt that it was normal? It was the normal thing. As a Jewish boy to grow up in a town where I grew up, you were taught to behave and do good and in everything you do try to do your best because in Germany they