Tag #136850 - Interview #103294 (Alice Kosa)

My mother had an elder half-brother, Vilmos Sternbach, from the first marriage of grandma, who left for Paris, and opened there a menswear shop. She had an elder sister too, Berta Klein. The French nuns had a convent and a school in Bucharest, and grandma sent both Berta and my mother to the French school, so that they would learn French.

She wanted the girls as well to go to Paris, so that their brother would do something of them, either they would earn [work], either… [get married].

So French language was indispensable, and that is why grandma sent them to the French misses, as she called them.