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English Translation Page 11 reads...Lothar Herrmann only paints rooms. Which is why I don't have much idea how to draw cartoons. Nor am I a mighty poet. But I did it as well as I could.
Manfred was a forced laborer for a small company that restored and repainted bombed apartments. The owner, Lothar Herrmann, was described by Manfred as a gruff but warmhearted working class man.
By summer 1942, many of Gad and Manfred's friends had already been deported. Every day, it seemed, meant another goodbye. Manfred, classified as (quote) full-Jewish (end quote) under the Nazi regime, was in greater danger than Gad. Gad was classified as (quote) half-Jewish (end quote) because his mother had been Christian before converting to Judaism. Half-Jews, including Gad, continued to work as forced laborers.
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