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1. Your choice for winter formal date could be decided by rock-paper-scissors.
2. A trip to the "big city" meant shopping at the mall.
3. You didn't meet your first "ethnic" person until college.
4. You thought "kosher" was just a brand of pickles.
5. You didn't realize the Nuremberg Laws started the process of excluding Jews from public life, setting the legal precedent for further anti-Jewish legislation.
6. You had no idea that the Star of David was something the Nazis ordered all Jews to wear for identification.
7. Kristallnacht sounded more like a kind of jewelry, and not a terrifying night of violence involving the burning of synagogues, destroying of Jewish-owned businesses, and attacking of Jewish people.
8. Ghettos were where rap came from, not where the Jewish people were forced out of their homes to live, before being brought by train to concentration camps.
9. Two-thirds of a pizza seemed like a diet. Two-thirds of Jewish people in Europe being killed in a concerted act of genocide seemed like an unfathomable statistic.
10. You realized the tremendous horrors that human beings are capable of inflicting upon one another when their basest instincts overtake their humanity, but it didn't stop you from being a small town girl!
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