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I never hid my heritage, God forbid. Well, I never really bragged about who I was, but when someone asked me I’d always tell the truth. I didn’t have any problems because of that. I was well liked, I don’t know why, but people never expressed hostility or any kind of disgust. But when I came back after the war I decided to change my name and my parents’ names. I did it for my children. I didn’t have them yet, but I was thinking about it. I didn’t want them to have ‘son of Chaja’ or ‘daughter of Chaja’ in their documents. I remember that my son was very afraid of this when he went to school, but I told him not to be afraid, that he was ‘son of Helena and Jakub.’ I knew that if someone wanted to find out they could find out from his last name, but I didn’t want my kids to be hurt. I’d rather not have them called names at school, as it sometimes happens.
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Helena Najberg