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33. From 7 to 17 ('61- '71) I in a 2/3rds Jewish neighborhood a mix of ...

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Sat Jan 28, 2023, 12:48 AM

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reformed, conservative, and secular Jews in NYC.

Around half of my friends were Jewish. Being so much closer to the end of WWII back then you could say the memories, and effects were "in the air" so to speak.

I did see one friend's ?grandmother's small numbers tattoo below her wrist. While my dad was an only child, my mom had 3 brothers, and a sister; so on her side we had a on the higher end of medium with our cousins, and the adults.
I became aware that my Jewish friends didn't always have big families bc of all who perished from the Nazis.

And, yeah, I did see some of those documentaries with their horrifing, and hideous photos, and films of liberating the Camps when I was a tween, early teen.

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