“For two years I had lived under this terror that the Russians would send us to Siberia. So after living like that for so long, I thought — and many people did — that maybe it would be better under the Germans … Once the Germans took over, it was complete chaos. They were constantly issuing decrees. Every day, there was a different order. Jews couldn’t go here, couldn’t go there, couldn’t do this, couldn’t do that. There was no more school. There was an ordinance that whenever a Jew passed a German on the street, he had to take off his hat and get off the sidewalk.”
— From “Hiding Places: A Mother, a Daughter, an Uncovered Life”
by Diane Wyshogrod
(a true story set in eastern Poland during World War II)