Rabbi Lawrence Kushner tells the following story in his book Invisible Lines of Connection:

“A light snow was falling and the streets were crowded with people. It was Munich in Nazi Germany. One of my rabbinic students… told me her great-aunt, Sussie, had been riding a city bus home from work when SS storm troopers suddenly stopped the coach and began examining the identification papers of the passengers. Most were annoyed, but a few were terrified. Jews were being told to leave the bus and get into a truck around the corner. My student’s great-aunt,” writes Kushner, “watched from her seat in the rear as the soldiers systematically worked their way down the aisle. She began to tremble, tears streaming down her face. When the man next to her noticed that she was crying, he politely asked her why. ‘I don’t have the papers you have. I am a Jew"....

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