Tag #128272 - Interview #96751 (Klara Kohen)

My mother was a Zionist and my father wasn’t happy with that. She was a member of WIZO [6], which was involved in educational and charity activities. After 9th September 1944 the organization ceased to exist. Once every Jewish house had two sealed tin boxes – one for the Keren Kayemet Leisrael [7] organization – for money collected in order to buy land in Israel. In this box, which we used to call ‘kumbarichka’, my father never dropped coins as he considered it to be too Zionistic. He usually dropped coins in the other box – for Bikur Cholim [8], a charity for sick and poor people. A commission came from time to time in order to collect the savings from every house.