Tag #125617 - Interview #78561 (Sofi Eshua Danon-Moshe)

The Germans came in 1941 and they were stationed in the building of our high school. We moved to the other buildings. Some of my classmates and I dared to pass by the high school and even entered the schoolyard. There we saw how the Germans squeezed either their toothpaste tubes or their tubes containing yellow cheese, something that looked like our spread cheese. They had loaves of black bread, they squeezed the tubes on the bread and started eating and our soldiers, good heavens… there was no other food for them apart from beans and lentils. Whereas the Germans – toothpaste! Hitler was looking after them very well. They were stalwart, with green uniforms, while ours wore uniforms that were beige in color and boots that weren’t very representative. I was very envious and was indignant all the time, ‘How is it possible…’

I, by chance, talked to some Germans who were stationed in the school. They were young handsome boys, very handsome. I told them I was a Jew, I wasn’t scared, and I wasn’t hiding the fact. And one of them told me that Jews weren’t nice people. ‘How come?’ I asked. ‘Take Einstein, for example, and everything that he thought of.’ And they told me in reply that it wasn’t Einstein who discovered those things, it was the Germans who did and he stole the results from them.