This photo was taken in my room in my partents’ apartment in Lwow.
I was a little girl then, I don’t know if I was 7, or 8 years old...
When still lived with my parents, we lived in those large apartment blocks on the third floor, the street was called Na Bajkach.
I don't remember how many rooms we had, I always had my own. I was the only child.
We had a bathroom. There was a coal stove and by that stove a large plastered box. It had a metal door on top and a small door at the side.
Once a week the coal supplier came and poured in the coal and the maid took that coal portion by portion through the small side door.
As a child, I loved to lay on that box because it was so warm there.
When my mother went out somewhere, I went to the kitchen to the servants and had my shakedown on that box.
The servants gave me scale weights to play. There was a weight called 'mother' and another called 'father' and the small ones, the children, and I played with them on those scales.
