Je nâaime pas ça, aller survivre. Je ne dois rien Ă lâAllemagne
JENNY
Je mets de lâail?
SELMA
De lâail! Du bist ja ganz verrĂŒckt! On nâest pas des paysans de la campagne ici! Laisse ça, je vais finir. La derniĂšre main. Je vais te dire une chose que je ne voulais pas te dire: tout le monde est raciste, il y a au moins douze racismes, des racistes tu en trouves partout.
Let me do it. Iâve made some LeberhĂ€ckele in seventy years Iâve made my share!
SELMA
Theyâve tried it on me more than once: âAt nearly ninety years old you canât refuse. The two of you, our last Jews. You must educate our youth.â
JENNY
Funny, the older you get the more you owe.
SELMA
The two Meyer sisters who knows them in OsnabrĂŒck? Our era has totally disappeared.
I donât like that sort of thing, to go survive for them. I owe nothing to Germany
JENNY
Should I add some garlic?
SELMA
Garlic! Du bist ja ganz verrĂŒckt! Weâre not peasants from the countryside! Leave it, Iâll finish. The last touch. Iâm going to tell you something I didnât want to tell you: everyone is racist, there are at least a dozen kinds of racism, there are racists everywhere.
JENNY
I hadnât noticed that
SELMA
On park benches in the train, especially at the butcherâs, racists, every last one of them, you canât lift a finger without handfuls of them dropping like a hair into your soup.
JENNY
Donât blame me for losing my hair!
SELMA
I blame you for not wearing a wig, especially in the kitchen. Look: a hair in the liver.
Frau Knoll the pharmacist. Her husband was the director of Theresienstadt.
JENNY
We were eating crepes across from each other our eyes met and she smiled at me. One bald lady to another.
SELMA
You could see she was having trouble making ends meet. But if it had been me, Iâd have avoided smiling at her.
JENNY
She started it. Afterwards they say: the Jew she thinks sheâs proud, she doesnât want to smile.
SELMA
Thatâs why. You end up smiling at Nazis and thereâs no end to it. Had I known, I wouldnât have returned to OsnabrĂŒck. I hadnât been back, for forty years it didnât bother me, I always thought one should never return to the past
JENNY
We couldnât have done otherwise. We were invited. We were obliged.
SELMA
Itâs you who obliged me to go, as usual, as soon as thereâs an invitation, Jenny has to accept.
JENNY
But youâre the one who wrote me if I want to come along.
And you thought the City Hallâs program looked interesting. We went to the OsnabrĂŒck theatre and they were doing Die Dreigroschenoper. And the hotel you told me it was the best in town the one across from the Cathedral. Thereâs a big buffet for breakfast
SELMA
I didnât go because of the hotel, I only said that for you. I hesitated a little. Afterwards I told myself thereâs no reason not to extend a hand. I didnât think any more about the past. Besides those people are gone. My generation has disappeared.
JENNY
The mayor was there too, the woman who was the mayor, she wasnât someone whoâd had a higher education, she was very nice, it was for her sake we couldnât say no.
SELMA
But we didnât know that ahead of time. We didnât know anything ahead of time. And now had I known Iâd rather not have added a new complication to this whole story that was already so complicated because of the Nazis and now into the bargain there are the new Jews as well.
JENNY
Whatâs done is done.
SELMA
The problems have changed so much. And now Iâm not going to start worrying about todayâs OsnabrĂŒck Jews I could have done without them.
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