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Show 0 r t z ( pa e:-~ 4 c; ) ,'rs. .,.,. tlr. Y fJfrs. u t"r. K ~rs. :1 of people could nP.vP.r und e~s and 1.-rhen thev a s1{ed rne "where are y0u frorn, German:v?", end I TArou1d tell t'1ern "I'm a Ger"lan JPt.AT''. ''~ow oe.n vou bP. tT.<J"f') - et tl-)er R .Jew ')~ a Gern'len?" Thev could never .•• thP :"om on t>P.nnle collld nPYPr understand how vou can be a ~errnan and a Je'1.1. Put I told them rip:ht FPATay tl-rat ''T 'm 8 Ger11an Jew". · T~ P.n ,v wtfe ft.rst carne, she and hP.r sister, if anybody said "JeNis~", tney Sfltd ,.d0n't sav it so loud". In t,.,e beginning we were frightened to death because in verrnany we didn't dare anv morP. to wa1~ t'1e strP.ets, and wl-ren we came here and saw a policeman r would shake - he dinn't do anvthing to me, you Know, but just seeing tl-re uniform. Yeah, that went on for a long time. If anybodv rnentt0ned the na"1e "Jewis.h ", I was scared. Do you still have R twinge of fear w~en you see a policeman? l o, ~that was in the ft rst few years. 1,vhen you first corne over and vou've been thr0ugh so much, vou ~now, you don't ~now who to trust right En~rav, but 1. t all fell r :I&:' t into place le.ter. ~ou carne here with your sister? She carne i~ri th her husband. ~y sister came maybe in '1R and I carne al~ost in '40, December of '39. What in particular hap~ened at that time t~at was worse than before We couldn't go to sleep at night because they would come through the streets and throw stones - see I was born in a small place - and they would throw stones through the windows. We had three floors to our house and we would · go all the way up to sleep because thev couldn't throw as well as on the first or second floors. Where ever you w~w~+ ~ you weren't free any more to go and do |
