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Listen to a fragment of Ellen Bernstein's testimony about her family and religious life in Bonn, Germany:
12017-05-17T13:12:28-04:00Ordinary People 41plain2017-05-17T13:12:28-04:00Despite the centuries of antisemitism in Europe before the Nazi rise to power, many German Jews considered themselves Germans first... Jews second. Patriotism was particularly important, especially to those Jews who had fought proudly for the Kaiser in the First World War. Jews prospered for generations as professionals and workers of every sort, from physicians and opticians, to peddlers, and they lived lives very much like those of their non-Jewish neighbors. More importantly, they did so in harmony, even while anti-Jewish sentiment remained just below the surface in Germany and throughout Europe.
