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ut to pay for my school, I gave lessons. For the money I earned, I paid for part of my gymnasium. I couldn’t cover the whole cost, because school was expensive – 35 zloty, I think. A month. But I could always contribute something, buy myself a notebook or a textbook [a school textbook might cost around 6-8 zloty]. Later, I had to have help for my Hebrew finals, so I paid for my own lessons.
I was maybe 15 then, and I had this one little girl, whose parents had moved there from Czechoslovakia or somewhere, who was due to go to school the next year, and she couldn’t speak Polish. And I taught her to speak Polish. In the afternoons, after school, I used to go there, perhaps not everyday, I can’t remember. All I remember is that on Fridays I was always given tea with milk and fresh cake. On Friday afternoons, because they baked it for Saturday. They were Jews. I even remembered what they were called until not long ago… it was a well-known, wealthy Jewish family.
I was maybe 15 then, and I had this one little girl, whose parents had moved there from Czechoslovakia or somewhere, who was due to go to school the next year, and she couldn’t speak Polish. And I taught her to speak Polish. In the afternoons, after school, I used to go there, perhaps not everyday, I can’t remember. All I remember is that on Fridays I was always given tea with milk and fresh cake. On Friday afternoons, because they baked it for Saturday. They were Jews. I even remembered what they were called until not long ago… it was a well-known, wealthy Jewish family.
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Emilia Leibel