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I don’t recall that there were many children our age. This was sort of the way he conducted the school. And I had an uncle who lived with us, a bachelor, whose name was Julius Odenheimer.

Reich: Was your brother older or younger?
JACOBSEN: My brother is older, a year-and-a-half older, so we’re rather close.

Reich: What was your family’s means of support?
JACOBSEN: My father had a family store, like a small department store or dry goods store.

I don’t think people were aware of what happened to the Jews at that time.

Reich: So there was maybe still some disinterest on that subject? 
JACOBSEN: Yeah. They struggled, I’m sure, and especially in the early 1930s when times were very rough in Germany. He knew my uncle from way back in Germany as a child.

Reich: He was German also?
JACOBSEN: Yes.

Yes. He was born in Hamburg. The sanitary facilities are also inadequate.” It was a freighter, and they just packed them into this, and then she writes, “We ran into a storm, and a lot of people became terribly seasick, which was horrible to watch. So it ended okay.

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It was very unique, especially in Germany. Tolerant is not a good word for it. We have to find out where they are and bring him his medication.” And so we got a taxi, because it was in the next city they were taken. I think that was my way of dealing with it. And so in the evening my mother said, “We have to find them. He was drafted, and he was in the ground forces of the air force, and he was sent to India.

We did observe the Shabbat. So that was my first experience of what was to be.

Reich: I’m interested in from a ten-year-old viewpoint what that felt like and how it was interpreted.
JACOBSEN: Well, it felt, it felt terrible. Why couldn’t your dear father be able to go with me? That was his first thought – that we should leave, my brother and I.

At least we could finish our education here.