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Without being taught, we didn’t speak Yiddish, but we understood everything they were saying. We heard it daily either from one or the other, and we understood everything. I learnt German in school, but since I understood Yiddish already, I learnt German easily.
[After my retirement] I studied Esperanto, I attended two courses of English. But I attended tailoring course as well. We didn’t quite learn to tailor, but we were drawing on paper. The teacher was a man, he took the measures, and he drew on the board, we in our copy-book with a pencil, one square was one centimeter, that was the base. I still have that copy-book.
[After my retirement] I studied Esperanto, I attended two courses of English. But I attended tailoring course as well. We didn’t quite learn to tailor, but we were drawing on paper. The teacher was a man, he took the measures, and he drew on the board, we in our copy-book with a pencil, one square was one centimeter, that was the base. I still have that copy-book.
Location
Romania
Interview
Alice Kosa