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It’s true, I played tennis in Maccabi and went for light athletics. [see Maccabi Sports Club in the Czech Republic] [17] I swam in the [SK] Bar Kochba [18] but I had more friends that were not Jewish, than Jewish ones. I was a ‘Czechoslovak’ until the beginning of 1938.
My social circle was always comfortable. Of course, there were a few mixed marriages, too. All the way up to 1939, it was such a natural thing. Naturally, the sadhen was at my friends house, sometimes, we would even look for, let’s say, some girl who had a big dowry. But those who had the big dowry, wanted a groom who had some title, at least an engineer or doctorate degree, a lawyer or a doctor.
There were a few of them, naturally, but not in my circle of friends, since the greater part of them weren’t Jewish. Sports brought us together. It didn’t matter if I competed for the Maccabi team, if there were a lot in the Slovak sport clubs [that is, the non-Jewish sport clubs], we mutually competed.
My social circle was always comfortable. Of course, there were a few mixed marriages, too. All the way up to 1939, it was such a natural thing. Naturally, the sadhen was at my friends house, sometimes, we would even look for, let’s say, some girl who had a big dowry. But those who had the big dowry, wanted a groom who had some title, at least an engineer or doctorate degree, a lawyer or a doctor.
There were a few of them, naturally, but not in my circle of friends, since the greater part of them weren’t Jewish. Sports brought us together. It didn’t matter if I competed for the Maccabi team, if there were a lot in the Slovak sport clubs [that is, the non-Jewish sport clubs], we mutually competed.
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Katarina Löfflerova