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“Meet a Jew”
by Peter Yeung
December 28, 2021

Apart from the hushed scribbling of pens on paper, silence filled an airy third-floor classroom at Sophie Scholl School on a recent afternoon in Berlin. One by one, two dozen eighth graders folded their sheets and coyly passed them along to the front of the class, where a pair of visitors sitting at a desk gathered them into a pile. A young woman named Liora in a pale-gray sweater, large-rimmed glasses, and a silver Star of David necklace picked up the first shred and read it out loud: “Do people treat you differently as soon as they find out that you are a Jew?” READ MORE