I started right away at the Montessori nursery school. I stayed there until I was six, at which time I started first grade.
In sixth grade my teacher was Mrs. Kuperus, the principal. At the end of the year we were both in tears as we said a heartbreaking farewell,
because I’d been accepted at the Jewish Lyceum, where Margot also went to school.
Our lives were not without anxiety, since our relatives in Germany were suffering under Hitler’s anti-Jewish laws.
After the pogroms in 1938 my two uncles (my mother’s brothers) fled Germany, finding safe refuge in North America.
My elderly grandmother came to live with us. She was seventy-three years old at the time.
After May 1940 the good times were few and far between: first there was the war, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans,
which is when the trouble started for the Jews. Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees:
Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn in their bicycles;
Jews were forbidden to use street-cars; Jews were forbidden to ride in cars, even their own;
Jews were required to do their shopping between 3 and 5 P.M.; Jews were required to frequent only Jewish-owned barbershops and beauty parlors;
Jews were forbidden to be out on the streets between 8 P.M. and 6 A.M.;
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