"We were only a handful, but this snarling bunch couldn’t pass any of us in the corridor without rubbing their noses, putting on #Fagin-like voices and muttering about #Hitler having had the right idea. The amusing ruse of hissing to signify #gaschambers, of which there has been much in the news recently, had not quite yet caught on.
Our tormentors would throw down pennies and joke about us using our apparently oversized noses to pick them up. #Jews were somehow accused of being miserly and extravagant at the same time – a simplified version of the #antisemites’ complaint about the Jews for a century, that we are apparently both communists and capitalists simultaneously.
I was twice physically beaten up for walking around while #Jewish, but there was one tormentor who was never violent, but was incredibly persistent.
He was called Johnnie Dickens..."
