Interview with Wilma Iggers in Bielefeld, 2006.
This video is currently only available in German. Below you will find an English translation of the audio track.
“There was nobody from Central or Eastern Europe in the whole high school. The population - I think - only knew a few Ukrainian farm workers or something, but in high school and university circles - I think - there was nobody.
When I came to McMaster University in January there was once a black girl and in my year there was a girl from a Chinese family but no one from Central Europe.
And then questions were asked about whether we have a radio or something or have already seen it or something.
One was that we didn’t know that emphasis on church or religion and so on. Neither among the Jews nor among the Christians I dealt with.
At McMaster University, I kind of failed to understand that some of my professors who had PhDs from good universities really believed in God and had a personal relationship with Jesus. At first I thought this was all forced hypocrisy. They have to do it that way, God knows for what reasons. But of course nobody believes it.
Over time I realized that many believed it after all.”