Tag #119105 - Interview #101860 (Marcel Simon )

While I worked I practically didn’t have the possibility to go to the synagogue, because I worked on Saturdays. I worked at an abattoir, in which they worked for export, and we had to come to work even on Sunday [Saturday wasn’t enough]. And as the party was involved in everything, you couldn’t say no, they would have kicked you out at once. And one couldn’t observe the holidays. Older people who were already retired observed them. During the communism it wasn’t forbidden for Jews to go to the synagogue. Even though at the [Christian] Orthodox they said that it was forbidden for those who were members of the party, but even so, more discretely, they celebrated the holidays. They went to the Sfantul Ioan Monastery, opposite from my place, and celebrated Easter. And some took refuge at monasteries so that they wouldn’t be seen.