If you were a Jewish school child in Nazi Germany.Write your experience in about 100 words
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Young Jews in the Third Reich faced hostility from the society around them and anxieties in families under severe stress, but most regularly they faced a variety of tribulations in schools. In fact, compared to their elders, whose loss of jobs and businesses proceeded more erratically, this generation saw a far more drastic deterioration in the atmosphere at public school and among non-Jewish friends and a drastic reduction in their aspirations. Gender played an important role in the expectations of parents and also determined how children interacted with peers and the ways in which they envisioned their futures, but from 1933 on, few children experienced a carefree childhood. This essay looks at the experiences of children in "Aryanized" schools, the effects of these school experiences on them and their families, and their move to Jewish schools, seen by most of them as an oasis in a hostile world. /// [Abstract in Hebrew].
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