What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

To change, to convert? Why bother?

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.