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When I was still going to grammar school, naturally, we were taught to read Hebrew, not to write. I can still read Hebrew, though not well, and naturally, we learned religion, too. When I was going to the Lutheran school, the Lutherans’ religion classes were very good [because the Catholics and Jews didn’t have classes.]
We went sleighing with the Catholics in the winter, they always had a sleigh hidden somewhere for when that class took place. If the Catholics had their religion class during the day, then we [the Jews] went sleighing with the Evangelists, because we didn’t have class, because there was only one teacher who could teach us in the afternoon, but none of us went in the afternoon, because it wasn’t obligatory. However, in our report cards, one of the subjects was religion. Since nobody went, we automatically got a one, the best grade.
We went sleighing with the Catholics in the winter, they always had a sleigh hidden somewhere for when that class took place. If the Catholics had their religion class during the day, then we [the Jews] went sleighing with the Evangelists, because we didn’t have class, because there was only one teacher who could teach us in the afternoon, but none of us went in the afternoon, because it wasn’t obligatory. However, in our report cards, one of the subjects was religion. Since nobody went, we automatically got a one, the best grade.
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Slovakia
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Katarina Löfflerova