He said believing in God was childish and he as a Jew is no different than another person and are not chosen by God.

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That is to say (being a lapsed Jew as well as a naturalised immigrant) he would swear the oath as amended by the Jews Relief Act 1858.

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Arrested in 1936, Sally, a Russian-born Jew, is sent to Mauthausen concentration camp, in Germany, where he survives for five years by painting Nazi kitsch.

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