20 years old i'm from frankfurt i'm about to start school in berlin as a film student. noise when i was 13 years old the schools i started going to a new school i didn't know at the time that there might be anything wrong with saying that i was jewish or that it could be a problem in any way or and but i quickly noticed that my classmates thought it was funny to draw swastikas harken cloyd's. die and as soon as the word gas came up the whole class turned and looked at me as the city gets cast over. i'm flying mask on in the beginning it wasn't hurtful at all because i didn't understand it was god i didn't know that this was anti semitism fell and that it was actively directed against me as a jewish to this. is going i'm just as if you would have been a struggle always that i don't see god around school that i was jewish yeah i think i was actually the only jew at the school governesses yes i can say i was bullied

for being jewish but in the 7th grade and because my german was a little worse than it is you know because not everyone has a birthmark like mine now and in the 7th grade that definitely makes a difference in 5 us also as a teacher 3 factors came together used to birth mark and russian. helped socialist society is a cumulative anger that builds up with all those little things all those jokes and invited some point you've had it out of the path and it goes bam-bam month. you feel. you don't know what to do with yourself that's a big problem in the same course problem because it makes things develop that you don't even want to imagine forced to make far more not nephew months ago there was a situation that school where girls together with 2 boys called me a jew as an insult you didn't bloody tap as you took the term and used it in

a negative way she said a lot of a bad word is about and one cannot own and i was totally overwhelmed and upset when it happened manfred says complete for you feel completely alienated as mom you don't want to be who you are you wish you'd never been born as all this is that that's the terrible thing about racism anti-semitism whatever that it makes you dislike yourself zaps. as a percentage been born i grew up without a religious upbringing but we've always had. connection to the senate on a cool with. that. is kept i just started to really engage with. dominance and it was a process and i gradually integrated more and more things into my everyday life so my school had to get used to the fact that i wasn't going to go to school on 2 ish holiday my friends had to get used to the fact that i can't go out partying with

them on saturday didn't find out it wasn't an obvious choice for everyone from this dunston. after i came out as jewish it made the rounds in the school relatively quickly and i got some surely due one pretty soon everyone knew i was jewish. i was presented a bit like a museum piece construed but people accepted it i was delighted when i transferred to another school and almost when my own class knew that i was jewish it's a huge discipline. but the other classes didn't not. imposible someone off in the school courtyard i'd often hear expressions like don't act like a juvenile thing you don't be a chew one for and sometimes i'd go over for friends of mine would go out and say that's not cool don't do that roman is jewish come off as me then there was this look of shock whoa we have jews here in school. 71 were felt uncomfortable

yes the word was used every day don't appear to you or don't act like a jew on. your dog particularly better because i saw how the people who constantly said things like that i started to pay attention to what they were saying and some other i'm going to slip out they apologized for this because when it's in someone's vocabulary it's hard to stop all at once is this where's the right answer stare. at this for to try to must take his illness i used to see it as a disadvantage to grow up in a small jewish community and then of there being i'm one of the few actual jews in essen the huge figure mind is the jewish community here is very very small a 1000 people to my i would say that less than 10 percent of all people who live in essen have ever actually met a jew. and 2. i

studied acting and i work a lot with jewish communities all over germany with youth groups and zones in general i would describe myself as an actor. yes one of the answers now at the moment as i see having grown up in essen is a real advantage in cologne or berlin maybe i wouldn't stand out as much as i do here in essence and tour. gives. the little. in fact i'd be happy if people who live in essen watched this program because s n was actually one of the centers of jewish life in germany before world war 2. had the 3rd largest synagogue in germany until 1938. as his'n was shaped by its jewish community for the whole of the 2nd world war that's not the case now and it's

a shame but it doesn't mean it won't change in the future. when you do some you go how i'm jewish and the keeper is part of me i wear it at home all the time i wear to synagogue why can't i wear to school i remember that day when i came to school wearing a kippah. warnings and the vice principal came up to me and said sam well i think it's great what you're doing but you know the school rules say no head coverings are allowed and i was like yeah but what about the headscarf you notice that and she said yes well the headscarf is different you don't have to wear keep up so i said it's actually very important to me that jewish life is also represented at the school you just leave as we have jewish students for and the keeper is important to me and it's the jewish equivalent to the muslim headscarf

and i'm going to wear it now and so too and then the next day she came up to me and apologised and said how embarrassed she was and i just thought it was a funny moment you decide and i've had nothing but good experiences to go home and i was elected student representative with a few of us are going to keep rock. thank you. for. the good to. see. he says i avoid a lot of conflict situations because i'm jewish i don't look at it i don't wear a kippa except at weddings and i don't wear a star of david ditto for the big guy that's the older guy with the force of to. be mr barton the fawn once i was riding the train and i had my star of david on and an older man sat down across from me and surratt he got up immediately and sat

somewhere else and kept looking at me very angrily for most of the bizarre. because actually you say this more with me. what do you have to do 1st. in fact i left right hand on the. right head. this one you know and and. and. i try to never hired my jewishness i wear my star of david necklace openly to the troops all around the world that there are situations where my mother asks me not to say i know that there have been problems where you're going could you please try

not to attract attention in sight it's not the 1st thing i say isn't it hello i'm jewish i kind of sit back and see what the situation is and yes unfortunately there have been times where i've put my star of david on the mighty ship to you know. i find it kind of sad you should actually be able to expect that it's a chill you can live just like any other german does here in germany. we always have to have the police in front of the school i think it's not terrible but more a shame that he did what our sports hall isn't in the school building and when we walk to the gym we always have to wait until the security and police are there so i don't really miss the police have to walk us to the gym. and fribourg i want my keep openly for a year that is without covering it up with

a cap even when i was doing sports. i didn't even notice how the attacker followed me into the locker room and while i was busy doing something on my locker he grabbed me from behind and ripped off my keeper then he shouted this doesn't belong here you dirty jew and so on. and he tried to tear up the keeper and it didn't work so he spat on it and threw it in the trash free pass then he said free palestine and spat on the ground and then he came up to me very close and threatened to beat me up there were other people in the locker room the whole time i turned to the other people in the row and we made eye contact and nobody said anything kind of because they didn't move an inch and that's what hurt the most on my big tongue same about my mother knows the truth. even i myself was once in a situation where i was put down and insulted in 6 jewish which because i also have red hair or something and my essence what hit me the most was not the insult but

that the other 23 people just sat there and didn't say it was one kind involved exact. sort of invention and i would like people to stand up and show some courage not just when it comes to people of the jewish faith but for people of all say it's the mind you shouldn't hide behind someone else or hide behind the crowd and say let the others do something so you should try to act as. the final part of a reporter asked me if the attacker was ethnically german yes i said i didn't want to talk about the nationality of the perpetrator why was i being asked to say yes it was imported anti semitism no it wasn't there's no such thing as imported anti-semitism anti semitism has never disappeared from history shows jews have been hated since the beginning of time most jewish holidays follow this pattern someone

tried to kill us it didn't work but seat of the fans will. give us modern history and every time i'm asked about muslim at the summit as i saw my say sorry but that's just an excuse want to deflect responsibility to the. last see that nora tells the story of her brother in which the perpetrators none of him had an immigrant background all got away scot free that he and his 3 jewish friends were severely bullied so badly that they had to be picked up from school and all of them changed schools i think except for one or 2 and the fact that the kids who were doing the bullying didn't get kicked out of school they just weren't any serious consequence not the kind of stuff the consequence. of in fact be obvious to ask that i definitely think that the 1st reaction of all

teachers and professionals should be 20 kate you should stop it 100 percent and explain to the students why it's wrong because that's the biggest problem i think they don't know why it's wrong if this is just a joke to them by the disease and this. i think it would be a big mistake if the teachers just cut the person off or send them out to. punish. the money and i think punishment it's not very productive in the end punishment just makes the hatred grow it creates even more negative associations. doesn't help people deal with the problem it just makes people feel strengthened in their conviction because especially at our age everyone wants to rebel we want to test. his promises not seen v i can't understand how the teachers can think

there's no anti semitism at our school it's not a problem we don't need to talk about it. well we visited a concentration camp on the school hike so we've shown what the consequences of anti semitism are so they know about it on the sets. in the. vapor from an intimate jewish students face and said to remind you. of the. loss of the teacher goes really angry to does not go she said you know what i don't want people like you in my closet either you behave yourself and cut it out with these actually semitic slows leave the room the whole. series 3 just leave the room just leave it alone and then the student was like i was just kidding. but then everybody else was like you don't joke around with something like that that's gross

. and what my teacher did was completely right and i wish i still had classes with her because i really felt comfortable with her through just. over the years i've run into a lot of my classmates again by chance like i have more self-confidence and i talked to almost everyone about it and we discussed the issues after these direct conversations we shook hands they also apologized for what they said or did that's why i think education and direct discourse is definitely the right way to approach this should. by anna during a discussion about israel is 6 foot tall boy sat next to each other and yelled at

her that israelis do exactly the same thing to palestinians that the nazis did to the jews. and partly via. and once i was at a party and i was talking about how i go to a jewish school and i also said i'm jewish and so i was standing there with my girlfriend and a young guy and we were just talking about this stuff. and the 1st thing he said after i said i was jewish and he was all worked up was so what's your stand on israel. what about israeli politics why is it like. i'm suddenly the israeli foreign minister i have to justify myself right away while me doing this unless this is this is this you know or what it means i mean egypt has advice about way. i have nothing to do

with the state of israel i've never been there i cannot vote there i have no responsibility for the actions carried out there have been and i don't agree with everything they do so it's a shame that everything gets lumped together you know president emphasis of also just assuming that i know everything about israel and about israeli politics is pretty ridiculous you know. i think what happens in today's society is this yes people are critical of israel that's ok it's ok to say that it's not anti sematic but what's behind this criticism of israel is often a really hateful kind of anti-semitism that's most the. israelis demonized thing even conflated with the ethics of the holocaust equated with the nazis the modern that there is this term the israeli or the palestinian holocaust and so holocaust setting them equivalent if you can't lead to the holocaust like that's.

mattering his right and i was someone once we even called me a child i can assure you i've never killed anyone i've never killed a child. going to someone's house and anti-semitism is not just about wearing a kippah in public and having it ripped off and being spat on. over 12. months by now you get depends on who you encounter for me at school i always had to explain myself and i always got these quite hopeful looks. oh. you're the 1st jewish person i've ever met his man. there are always people also in the 12th grade who treat you with kid gloves when

in marshawn they are really cautious and you can tell they're watching what they say he says if they think they might accidentally hurt your feelings and. just money and. a certain kind of do this shouldn't be this fair of interacting we're not some exotic species that threatened with extinction i'm a completely normal human being if there's anything you're interested in just tell us. it's cool i'll see you the same way i would if i were talking about soccer even so i like to play soccer yes this was someone asked me what my favorite team is and i know that fans of 860 munich i know they won't like it when i say my favorite team is by and i sometimes think to myself in that situation be careful but i still talk to them normally i'm on with a puzzle on ice for she often but i can also understand that when there's no active jewish life going on around them but just memorials to destroyed synagogues and i think 3 commemorative events a year to the secular holocaust memorial day the jewish holocaust memorial day and

november 9th that's all people know about being jewish so i get that there's this feeling oh this is something different something on for milliards that's what's noise sources you know. and wishes on turkish humvee and infant day you must have john history class we watched the film the boy in the striped pajamas and the teacher came over to me in front of the home class and she knelt down beside me on her and said yeah if it's too hard for you to watch this you can go outside and i found bats and oh i know that she meant well just maybe to be mine but it was this kind of pity and i find pity and i don't like as a tool does mark astonished. women

as most human too whenever you say something about judaism and people always think right away of the show on the holocaust and not of the culture itself and i think that's why people somehow get so uptight. the oftentimes often we fall into this victim relvar you often because it was something very terrible that happened in history right. i want to be reduced to the holocaust was that so maybe i am not the holocaust the holocaust. interest when the smoke of course we can't forget what happened not at all on the on the other hand we aren't victims anywhere and we're not the ones who experienced their skin those were normal people who should have a normal place in everyday life shouldn't have a special status we should just be normal yeah so yes that's what i wanted to say but i didn't manage to put it so well. when.

i heard. them but 12 spying hype and i've been helping out for 2 and a half years in the jewish community in munich tonnages i thought the great thing is that when i go there it feels like family i feel very very appreciated that. there's a good trip to. the truth that i suspect i miss as a shock so. it's very empowering to know that you have a huge community behind you that's really there for you at the end of the day august i come from in a bad marriage and all something bad has just happened i go there and somehow a feeling of my hose a tip it just kind of envelops me and yeah cause there's an extremely strong sense of solidarity it's just that mix with your mother here is nothing to be ashamed of

and nothing to be afraid of you can talk about anything well money because this is a place where you can be open and from where we've become a small family and so i live. under the gun feeling something a lot of us take part in that you are of asian vision from that you're a vision takes place once a year each time in a different city on the instruct. the jury vision to. the year of asian ice is singing and dancing competition e.s.c. the year efficient song contest with jewish communities this is video and tree because the new video you forgot yeah we made a music video. on . you to use each jewish community had to choose a video introducing their community and the things that.

is good it's about life cycles that is cycles in jewish life. circumcision then you turn 13 and theoretically you are not old and so basically everything that happens in a jewish life. we always rehearse from october all the way 3 days and then you put money in. i think. this is our lives it's everything it's joy it's everything all at once and when you stand there and there are 5000 people watching you and you think oh god. that was a. month and you're already standing there with this microphone so you think to yourself ok i have to finish this this and then the coolest thing is when people

celebrate what you're doing and then you just can't stop and you just want to stay on stage is of no blood. no nothing like that i'm a disc it missed me it's not about winning it's more about seeing friends again point of view does in. her. home for one think it's a meeting place where you can really see you're jewish you don't have to be afraid you don't have to hide you can be open and. really feel comfortable there always who. was. devoid of the idea is to embody the belief that we're just like anybody else we're not aliens or anything. as we're just weird that's what i'd wish for that nobody looks at you funny. there's definitely a new generation and hold on and you we're a young generation involved in our community mind. we have

a lot to say and we want people to listen and. if you know me going i wish would be to be more open to people and my other circle of friends is non jewish very it doesn't matter what religion you are simply among friends and among people visit we grew up here it is our home too and we have to actively show you this because we don't all at the same other people come to see that way jewish we don't have we are jewish written on our foreheads. when i think of wantonly this my only wish for the future is to be able to be normal as a jew. i wish people didn't stare at girls with headscarves or boys with kid boxes or whatever everyone should live like they want you know sort of live you know her . into the future what i would like to see is the other jewish life.

real jewish life to which it's all about what really happens what makes people tick . well it's implicit in our t.v. soonish sleep at the end of the day we do have an active jewish life here in germany is this you for many people in mainstream society jews or simply a french group that always gets demeaning view and i think it's simply wrong to reduce that to just that would offer able to view it. as needed. also it's in our hands what we do with it is up to us and we can turn things around and show people it's been hey i'm jewish but i'm also a student and i travel. and i cook and being jewish is one of the elements that makes me who i am. this is all that's our challenge but it's only possible to meet it up to a certain point because to be honest i'm not sure how people will react to this picture.

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