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A Jew In Germany or Occupied Europe:

This is my diary

which I have decided to write, so that I can hopefully relive my youth when I

read this when I am an old man. I live in the south of Poland with my family

which I adore very much since they mean everything to me. We have a small family

business, a small shop, which supplies us with enough money to get by on during

these hard times since the slump nearly five years ago. Life is hard but

rewarding at the moment, soon there will be a new member to the family, since my

wife is expecting our second child. I hope one day to see my children grow up

and carry on the business which I started nearly eight years ago in 1927.

Today I received a letter from my sister Erika, who lives in Germany.

She too followed the family tradition and set up her own shop in Germany with

her husband, but in this letter she seems to be very distressed and worried. She

says that life has started to become very difficult since 1933. There has been a

new ruling body installed in Germany called NAZI and according to her newspapers

it is led by a hero, who has come to save Germany; Adolf Hitler. These Nazis

oppose our jewish religion greatly; nearly everybody does, but this is a new

strain of hatred that I have no seen before. In letter she states that some new

anti-semitic rules called "The Nuremburg Laws" came into effect just this month

which will practically sign her business' death warrant. Over the pass year her

shop has been fire bombed several times and even her distressed children are

receiving threats from kids their own age. Her husband has even been assaulted

by brown shirted thugs belonging to this Nazi party. I hope she will write soon

because I think she will not be able to cope with any more of this harassment.

There is an air of uncertainty of the frost bittern streets of our city.

We are currently celebrating "Chunakah", the festival of Light which coincides

with Christmas. These celebrations are now hollow to us, hollow with the

emptiness of absent relatives. Many of my friends like me are worried for our

loved ones in Germany and Czechoslovakia. The Nazi power in Germany has grown

like an petty acorn to a giant oak tree. There are daily reports in our papers

about increased pogroms against our fellow jews and families in Germany. My

family and I are very worried about my sister.

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