Nuremberg, 1936 In 1933 the Französisches Gymnasium was closed by the new government and I transferred to the Goethe School with Herr Lang as my principal. This was a sad occasion, I had to say farewell to Herr Siegler but I liked the new school and was particularly pleased to see Aaron there. He became one of my closest friends. However our time together was short-lived. He graduated in 1935 and initially attended the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences but after the government fired all the Jewish lecturers and put pressure on Jewish students to leave, his family moved to Budapest and Aaron enrolled in Pázmány Péter University. He sent me letters from time to time but suddenly they stopped and I didn’t hear from him again. I wasn’t too happy to see Otto Becker at my new school. Since the Sniper incident he hadn’t spoken to me nor had I retaliated. We just ignored each other and I made sure I sat as far away from him as possible. Imagine my surprise when one day he came up to me during lunch.
