I don’t think I distinguished between Jewish and non-Jewish at that stage. We mixed with our family and both my brother and sister went to local, not Jewish schools. I had no feelings of anti-Semitism towards me or anybody in my family. I was only starting to become conscious of anti-Semitism after 1938 when Hitler had gone into Austria and my two aunts and their families living in Vienna were already being brutalised.
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