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I was born at home, on Dietla Street in Cracow. 101 Dietla Street, back premises, third floor, it was a house on the border of the Jewish district. It was the apartment of my grandparents, the Rumelds, who went to Zakopane. Three bedrooms, arranged one next to the other, there was a dining room in the middle one. At the beginning some tenant lived in the first room.
That’s where we lived until I was twelve. Then we moved to 5 Krasinskiego Avenue, next to where the department store Jubilat is today. That was a type of an apartment I’ve never had since that time. Three bedrooms that were about 120 square meters, a hallway, a pantry next to the kitchen, the servant had her own bedroom with a window. And in the bathroom there were appliances that I still don’t have, for example, apart from a sink, there was a special dish for brushing teeth, like at a dentist’s, a round bowl for spitting. So that you wouldn’t spit into the sink. There was also a bidet and other appliances like that.
It was a very beautiful apartment, on the 5th floor; we lived there until the war broke out.
That’s where we lived until I was twelve. Then we moved to 5 Krasinskiego Avenue, next to where the department store Jubilat is today. That was a type of an apartment I’ve never had since that time. Three bedrooms that were about 120 square meters, a hallway, a pantry next to the kitchen, the servant had her own bedroom with a window. And in the bathroom there were appliances that I still don’t have, for example, apart from a sink, there was a special dish for brushing teeth, like at a dentist’s, a round bowl for spitting. So that you wouldn’t spit into the sink. There was also a bidet and other appliances like that.
It was a very beautiful apartment, on the 5th floor; we lived there until the war broke out.
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Maria Ziemna