Why I Would Rather Not Be a Jew—and If I Must, Then Rather Not in Germany
Henryk M. Broder
1979
When it came time for me to start school, my mother went to the director of the Wilhelm Pieck School in Katowice, Poland, where we were living then, to register me. My sister, nine years my senior, attended the same school. I still remember well how my mother returned home completely distraught, explaining that the director had said there were…
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