I joined the B.D.J.J.,
which stood for the Bund Deutsch-judischer Jugend.
And for a period of a year,
I spent my life...
in the Bund and its activities.
We marched, believe it or not--
In 1935, we marched through the streets of Berlin...
with our blue-and-white flags with the Magen David on it.
And traffic didn't stop for us. But we marched.
Most of the time, we would go...
into quiet neighborhoods or to outskirts of Berlin,
and we did our marching there.
But we had songbooks. And instead of the "Horst Wessel Lied,"
which was the--
the national anthem of the Nazi party,
we sang the "Hatikvah."
And instead of "Jewish blood will spurt,"
"Judenblut muss spritzen"--
which was the main battle cry of the Hitler Youth--
we said "Tomorrow in Jerusalem."
I became very, very religious.
I went to temple every single Friday night,
every Saturday, every holiday I went to Dr. Joachim Prinz's temple,
which was in West Berlin, close to my home.
It was a very, very intense Jewish period in my life.