You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.
My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.
I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.
The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time.
I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real belief and without a strong faith.
I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me.