“Of course, we didn’t know what they were actually capable of. What was happening in the ghettos. If we knew, we would have left like the others, the smart ones. You see, the Germans, they saw us as just Slavs, slaves, and wanted us gone, sooner or later.” “And what happened after that?” “My mother was so scared, she became a Catholic. And then bombs. And more bombs. Boom, boom, boom,” she slapped the table. “And your father, what did he believe in?” “No Catholicism, no Judaism for him. But he did convert to Alcoholism.” She bit her lip and shrugged.
