End of the year photo of Edit Kovacs' elementary class

This photo was taken at the end of the 1926/27 school year at the state elementary school on Svetlana Street. I later attended a middle school (translator's note: this type of school oriented the graduates towards commerce, crafts and administrative jobs). I was a good student in school, but I was so uninterested in religion that even though I attended religious instruction in school, I never even learned the Hebrew letters. In the elementary school, there were only two or three Jews in my class, so most of my friends were Gentiles. This was not a problem in my family. In the middle school, I made friends mostly with Jews and every Friday we used to go to the synagogue together. I had a very close friend, Zsofi Lieberman, whose family was so observant that her father would not let me into the flat with a salami sandwich. I had to eat it on the doorstep.