Tag #106879 - Interview #89494 (Emilia Leibel)

Renia and her elder brother used to go to gymnastics to the ZTG, the Jewish Gymnastics Society [founded 1917; president: Dr. Ludwik Goldwasser], and I started to go with them. The three of us walked there from Krakusa Street, well, there wasn’t the traffic on the roads. Before you got to Jozefinska there was the old bridge [a wooden one, known as Podgorze bridge; in 1933 the construction of the steel J. Pilsudski Memorial Bridge was completed], and just after the bridge, in the kehile [Jewish community buildings, at 2 Skawinska Street; the seat of the community headquarters to this day] was gymnastics. The gymnastics rooms were in the basement of the kehile building. You went about twice a week or something. I went to those gymnastics classes for a long time.