huck finn. i did all of those things. in that sense i had a normal upbringing. and later on when all the other boys turned away from me and there were very few jewish friends in the town that i lived in. there was nobody exactly my age. but there were some other boys close to me. but no more than two or three. the rest of my jewish friends i found in heidelberg, which was of course large enough to have a larger jewish population. and that to some extent made up for my not being able to associate with anybody in the town in which i lived. and i have some very fond memories, for instance, of this organization that i mentioned of going off into the mountains and going hiking. sometimes for a few day trips. staying in youth hostels overnight. those are all things that sort of made my formative years quite interesting. and to some extent enjoyable. and that went on even after the nazis came to power. but it stopped when i was approximately 14. at that point my father was no longer able to send me to high school which required tuition. so it was thought best that for