You do not have to wait long for your answer. Within months, Hitler's program begins to take effect. Signs are posted on Jewish Businesses, telling other Germans not to buy in those stores. Jews are fired from their jobs, especially in the schools and the government. Non-Jewish friends no longer come to your home, and they turn their heads aside when they pass you in the street. From time-to-time, you hear of attacks made on Jews: old men pulled into the street from their shops and forced to scrub the gutters, people beaten by the Brownshirts, even occasional murders. A cloud of fear descends upon the Jewish community in Berlin and throughout Germany.
Yet your studies at the university have been going very well. You don't want to give them up; It's very important to you to become a doctor and to return to Poland to work in the Jewish communities there. Perhaps this outbreak of anti-Semitism is just temporary; maybe it will pass. After all, this is a country of civilization, the land of Bach and Beethoven. People will not stand for such attacks on German citizens for much longer.
On the other hand, perhaps Chancellor Hitler is really serious about making Germany free of Jews. Could it be that these attacks are just the beginning of the actual destruction of Germany's Jews?
If you believe the outbreak of anti-Semitism is only temporary, and you decide to stay in Germany to complete your studies, continue to page 6.
If you decide to sacrifice a medical education for your own safety and return to Cracow, continue to page 7.