Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decress: Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn in their bicycles; Jews were forbidden to use trams; Jews were forbidden to ride in cars, even their own; Jews were required to do their shopping between 3.00 and 5.00 p.m; Jews were requiered to frequent only Jewish owned barbershops and beauty salons; Jews were forbidden to be out on the streets between 8.00 p.m and 6.00 a.m; Jews were forbidden to go to theatres, cinemas or any other forms of entertainment; Jews were forbidden to use swimming pools, tennis courts, hokey fields or any other athletic fields; Jews were forbidden to go rowing; Jews were forbidden to take part in any athletic activity in public; Jews were forbidden to sit in their gardens or those of their friends after 8.00 p.m; Jews were forbidden to visit Christians in their homes; Jews were required to attend Jewish schools etc. You couldn't do this and couldn't do that, but life went on.
Anne Frank, 20 June 1942
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