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Show ~er tz (page J l) ~ r. q y.. r. !( ~..~. ....... . c.. Mr. K ~" r. -q ~ i d peool e , i n vour A"'<"periencP at trat tirne , 1.rrJol,., the intencttv? Yes, thev found out , ~nd t~e Jewish people ~e r e too~ ce r e of the new co~ ers that ca~e f r o~ Ge r many or w~e r e eve r t hey ca~e fr om , and ~ev did t~e bes t thAV could . ~u t, f or ~A they wou l dn 't ha ve one anvth i ng becausA I had rA lat t ves and I was 8 young ~ id, you knoN , a YO'.ln-'2" rn~n .. and I r:l i dn' t ne ed t hem. I didr1't ha ve t o a sk t~ern to 1oo~ out fo r ~e or ta~~ ~ e t o a nicnic or buy ~ e a ~eal, you lrnow . You could ta~ e ca re of yourself. The co ~~u nitv in 3alt La~e City was very fortunate to ~Y recol-ect ion. I don't t~in~ they ~ad a ny people co~e here who were a 1 0 0 ~ burden to the community. So, t hev were never really pressed, you're saying. :o, t he Jews weren't dependent. They could help themselves, they could find jobs and they could wor~. If you would have told rne in Ge"M:Jany t~at I would press pants .• if yo11 'd told '11e that t.o.rhen I r.Nas 15 years o1ci, I would have said "I' 11 stay here, you go there". Sut t h ings wi 11 change. ~ ~Then I left Gerrnany I was 11Ti 11 ing to do anyt h ing just t" be arATay from there. l\s I mentioned before, no-t~ ing ~e p t me there: I had no family. Did you go to school here at all? Oh yes, I went to night school. I graduated from high school here because my night school teacher told me if I would ta~e school for two years I could ta~e a test and he would see that I get a high school d i nloma. i1e beca'1le good friends. He was a lawyer here and he taught night school, and it appeared that he learned a lot of German and he told me that if I went there he would see t o it. I went there mostly to learn the language, and I got great in with |
