What a brave young woman! The teacher’s comment, after making this student stand out as different, was strange and intimidating. Any minority student in our country, e.g., African. Muslim, etc., would have been mortified. The writer must have felt so alone in Germany. Had the Nazi regime not terrorized anddecimated the Jewish population Germany during her great-grandparents’ lifetime, there surely would have been many more of Ilana’s Jewish brethren in that classroom.
What a brave young woman! The teacher’s comment, after making this student stand out as different, was strange and intimidating. Any minority student in our country, e.g., African. Muslim, etc., would have been mortified. The writer must have felt so alone in Germany. Had the Nazi regime not terrorized anddecimated the Jewish population Germany during her great-grandparents’ lifetime, there surely would have been many more of Ilana’s Jewish brethren in that classroom.