it had been taken over by the government of Germany and to keep out.  He was able to look in the window and saw everything was strewn everywhere.  His equipment was in pieces, broken, busted, smashed, unfixable.”

     The waitress appeared to take our order.  I ordered a chicken salad sandwich on wheat bread with French fries on the side.  Clara ordered the chicken noodle soup and a grilled cheese sandwich.  She took another sip of coffee, then spoke again when the waitress was gone.

     “Papa was beyond devastated.  His shop he owned for over forty years was gone.  My husband, Joseph, worked there with my papa, but he’d been reading the papers and knew it was coming, that Jews were getting slowly pushed out of German society.&nb...

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