Worried about anti-Semitic attitudes in the population, his parents advised Fredy: "Try not to stand out, because if you do anything, it's not you, it's the Jews, then it’s the Jewish boy."

Fredy Kahn: "I kept to it, that I had to pay attention and be good, because these people, who are my parents, had already been through so much. ... So I thought, I have to be especially careful now, so that I don't put my parents through more than they've already been through. I functioned, I was well-behaved, I didn't fuss, there was nothing until puberty, and not even during puberty."