"IVe Seen a lot of overanalyiing of things in school, where yvife walked behind him Ll^at way. But I warn people, be careful ofthat." ■' "Of what? Well, to nie it's too bad thcre was a Jcwisli secdon. I think inost peop Je here considcr themseives American, and rhen they pick out their own individual differences. I suspect it might as long as people isolate themseives. They t have come from somewhere eise, been in cransit. He was then airlifted to England and was taken to Bulldog's Bank, a youth hostel run by Anna Freud and frlends. She also did her share of comforting others or of helping Leah, the latter especially after Leah begun to call her "my Ruth." But apart from these reactions, she was moved by feelings of envy, jealousy and competition, which were lacking in the other children and which made her actions stand out as isolated instances of maliciousness or spitefulness. *If you been white Vd probably have failed you.* I always rcmember that. What was it in Illinois, the Nazi5 — I forget the name of that town.'' •Skokie." ' Ycah, the Nazis chose to raarch through the Jewish section of the city. America is a great place for breaking that cyc Je: so many difterent people from so many dif Ferent backgrounds. Many people here, I suspect, feel diat what happened In Spain, what happencd in Germany, might happen in the United States. " •*Yes, what is now East Berlin, as much as 1 undersund. After WW2, he was liberated by the Russians and taken to a Russian hospital In Prague to recouperate. She behaved like the others so far as being inseparable from the group was concerned, did not want to be left alone and worried about absent children. I went to private schcfol all rrty lifc, which I dun H tliink was such a great idea." He paused and then adried, as if to justify sonicthtng, "Well, when thcy sent mc away v/as when my mother had cancer; that was what my inother's big concern was," "How old were y^u then? She kntw she had terminal cancer and," he GADl JACOBSEN 49 ,lned "ihev didn't want me to wilness that. The story of Gadi Is one of the most moving stories I have ever heard. she seiie, Miriam's basket and empties the Contents mto her own. But then when l became a teacher," he laughed quietly, "t Jicn he thought, wellvteachers are prctty good too. After my mother dit«J and after I came out of College, l became very much cioser to my faiher. effecis [oflife in the concentraüon camps] on the children-whw h \r tl»e way, my aunt gave me to read when 1 was older. " "Oh, i knew iimnediate Jy which onc I was." "By the birüi date? Eine Nonne hat ihn gefunden, versteckt, die Nazis haben ihn entdeckt, ins Waisenhaus getan. " I could also send you a copy of the handwritten letter. Let me know if there is anything eise I could do for you. Sister Gertrud helps her by fillmg^her basket with acorns. Soon afterward Peter stumbles and, falling, knocks against Ruth by mis- take. Suddenly her face shows a tr.umphant, unpleasant grin.
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I locked myse Jf in the bathroom from lime to timc. Once," he sighed, "I was told I ended up going to the bathroom, locking myself in and ihey couldn'i gel me out, Thcy had to send for my father." Süendy, he pondered something out of reach. "I hcard the story/' she said, "of how he came here. have a master's degree in educaüon, and 1 teach history. " t ' I GAJDIJACOBSEN "I teil them l was a victim of the Holocaust. *' "No, it get& the poim across, and then you don'i have to anything," '*Have you ever been back to Europe? Gadi became a teacher, never married and died of Cancer at the age of 38 in 1980. On the other band, the difference between her and the other children's behavior together with the difference in their emotional histories seems too striking to be a mere coincidence.
My father asked why, and he Said ihat's what women are expected to do. When I teach the Holocaust I always give them a mm-down on my own experience." ''Wliat do you teil them? I suppose that if you Ve shak dicm, you have taugbt the Holocaust." "Is that a sardonic smile? had just graduated from College, My father was Swjtzerland. I think my fat was nineteen or twenty, from the Information that I've gottep on original parents. Inj Froma Zettlin Joseph, llie last name is not a Gennan name. That's as much as I know." "What did you do in East Berlin? I was curious, The strcet is sdll tliere, typ East Gennan, Not much. Gadi is a part of the "NAZIS, THERESIENSTADT Ssx" which was a study of how such youngsters adapt to the traumas they faced. Erich and Gabrielle (nee Kirstein) Jacobsen adopted him just after the war - ca, 1946 and brought him to Fairport, New York. I couldn't fjgure out where he came from and nobody told me until much later. In this connec- tion it is interesting to remember that Ruth is the only child among AN EXPERIMENT IN GROUP UPBRINGING 139 the group who has a recorded history of passionate attachment to a mother Substitute.^ The evidence is not sufficient to establish with cer- tainty that it is this past mother relationship which prevented her from merging completely with the group, and which aroused normal siblmg rivalry in her.
I hnd a lol of people now, especially kids, demand 4 that they get grades, and 1 always remembcr an inddent: a youi man came to me and he said to me 'm class 'You gavc me a D becau Im black, and 1 said to him, 'You Ve probably right,' I said. J cei tainly am not a Zionist- I think Israers a great place for people who've experienced a scnsc of insecurity, who are lookjng for a scnse of security. I don't sp« Ger man, so it makes it very difficuh to ask questions." "Did your natural parents come from East ßcrlm originally? Someday I roay do somcthing thro the German Enibassy. People at schooi think they'rc bi kind rd just as soon not talk about it, Christel helps a ! Very Orthodox Jcws do this." "I think you have thii mixed up with old Japan,'* I iaughed. Evidently he was passed from person to person and miraculously survived. August 79^x December 1945.^ ^ihn: "Is hou" p P'^Ru Oi: "Is nicht [not] hot." jÄ^^ohn: "Is Jiot." S^^; Ruth (shouting): "Is nis hot." ^^^Ijöhn" (triumphanüy): "1$ " 5? This second phase lasted approximately from Janu- ary to July, when the relations between the children became peaceful . ' -^^ The only child whose reactions did not fit in with the general be- havior of the group was Ruth.
I suppose the Kennedy years in Huenccd me a great dcal. "I suspect maybe riois have infiuenccd me, and I think civil rights are fme, but maybe pcople on an individual basis deserve individual righw. Basically l don't like fo lalk abo because it gets me tcnse. Takes care of ine/' "You're dne for some better years ' l wished. Well, it can get to t Jie point of ridiculou&ness: having the wife walk ten pates bchind the husband. I want there to be a certain loyalty." "Do you thmk blood matters that much 10 chj Wrcn? "Thafs all 1 can sa, w« never particularly dos« to t . After spending time In an orphanage he was glven to a woman being send to Theresienstadt. She does not fetch the chair herselt but goes out again. r After the children had entered into more normal emotional relation- ships with the adults and had become more independent of each other, word battles diminished and were replaced to some degree by the fights ■ normal for this age.