When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

by Ariana Neumann

The laws emboldened those with a racist agenda, who were now organized into groups like the Czech fascist association, Vlajka. Individuals too were now empowered to voice their hatred and to act, unpunished, on their prejudices. Racism and violence were being normalized.

The laws had another, subtler effect. They generated an enormous amount of paperwork and bureaucracy that increasingly wearied the thousands affected and served further to alienate and differentiate.

I realize now that there are sorrows that cannot be conveyed, wounds with which you learn to live but that never completely heal.