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A would-be but never-to-be skating champion.

    Apparently I wasn’t too bad at skating either. There was an ice skating rink in Düsseldorf and I had a teacher who said to my parents that I showed talent. One day he said to me, “Liesl, I’m sorry, but I am not allowed to teach you any more. Tell your parents that I would love to continue, because you don’t look Jewish.” I then told this to my mother and assumed that I would be able to continue after all, because he had said I didn’t look Jewish. But my mother said straight away, “No, you can’t. You’re not allowed to. The man could lose his job.” And that was the last time. And then I said to him in a conversation, “Now you see a would-be but never-to-be skating champion!”
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