Some of the younger kids [in school] found out I’d come from Germany. I don’t know how, but they started doing ‘Heil Hitler’ salutes to me in the playground and calling me a Nazi. And I defended myself by telling them that I couldn’t possibly be a Nazi, because I wasn’t even German, I was Jewish. I had no idea what Jewish was. But from that moment on, I developed a Jewish identity.
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