When you were an outcast, you only talked to people you knew. You kept to yourself. You made certain to speak quietly when you were outside, or not to speak at all. Beautiful girls made themselves look plain; they wore gray clothes and no makeup and they didn’t lift their eyes when they passed by the soldiers. Women left their babies home alone rather than taking them into the street, where they might be grabbed from their arms. People waited for the next laws against the Jews the way farmers wait for a storm.
