Georg Iggers in front of former Talmud-Tora-School in Hamburg, 2005
“The Talmud Torah School was not only a Jewish school, but a religious Jewish school. And of course there were Jewish religious lessons, the Jewish holidays and so on were celebrated, we didn’t have lessons on the Sabbath, instead on Sunday, and I was then with peers who were Jews, and many of them were very conscious Jews, the youth movement also played a role, and Zionism. We knew in the Talmud Torah School that emigration was imminent, and that also meant that we had intensive English lessons, and that we not only learned Biblical and Prayer Book Hebrew, but we also had intensive New Hebrew …”