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After I was fired from the children’s home I worked a few years in the Friends of Children Society [FCS] [20], where I was responsible for childcare in children’s homes. It was my job to go round and inspect those children’s homes. I also had to oversee the programs of the summer camps that schools organized. I only went on inspections. There were a lot of summer camps like that in Murzasichle [a popular vacation resort in the Tatra Mountains in southern Poland]. The whole village was basically just 11 FCS summer camp centers.
After the FCS I worked in Vocational Training [the Vocational Training Institute, est. 1915] on Dietla Street. For a while I worked there as course director. Then I moved to the Polish Economic Society. From there I was fired by the director, who I’d previously hired myself as a lecturer on courses, because I didn’t have the qualifications and I couldn’t lecture. He was called Nedzowski, an economics graduate. They wanted to fire him too, but in the end he joined the party and stayed, but I wasn’t a party member, and I was fired. What year was it when they fired all the Jews? [1968] [21]. Ah, well that was when they fired me. Why? The usual: Jewish.
So then I went back to Training on Dietla Street, but not as course director any more, but in the library, part time, because I got a doctor’s certificate that I was sick. Then the library was closed down and I worked afternoons enrolling students on courses.
After the FCS I worked in Vocational Training [the Vocational Training Institute, est. 1915] on Dietla Street. For a while I worked there as course director. Then I moved to the Polish Economic Society. From there I was fired by the director, who I’d previously hired myself as a lecturer on courses, because I didn’t have the qualifications and I couldn’t lecture. He was called Nedzowski, an economics graduate. They wanted to fire him too, but in the end he joined the party and stayed, but I wasn’t a party member, and I was fired. What year was it when they fired all the Jews? [1968] [21]. Ah, well that was when they fired me. Why? The usual: Jewish.
So then I went back to Training on Dietla Street, but not as course director any more, but in the library, part time, because I got a doctor’s certificate that I was sick. Then the library was closed down and I worked afternoons enrolling students on courses.
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Emilia Leibel