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I think I was in 5th grade, I was 11, when my parents took the apartment at 6 Czarneckiego Street [near Krakusa Street]. It was a whole floor that had been added onto an old two-story tenement house. That was a larger apartment, 3 rooms. So I had a room with my brother, there was a bedroom, a dining room, a bathroom and a WC – something else altogether. A modern apartment. It didn’t have gas. The water was heated in a boiler in the bathroom. The maid lived in the kitchen, yes. In some apartments there was this kind of recess for the maid’s bed, but not in that one. It was a warm house, an open house. Friends would come by, and cousins. They would drop by, because my parents were hospitable and liked young people, and they themselves were liked.
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Emilia Leibel