Tag #151148 - Interview #78033 (Vladimir Goldman)

When we returned to Odessa my mother went to the director of the Russian secondary school and asked him to admit me to the 3rd grade. I was 10, but I hadn't gone to school yet. My father and Tamara taught me to read and write in the ghetto. The director offered me to go to the 1st grade, but my mother was afraid that I was too big and the children would laugh at me. On the one hand, she was right, but on the other hand she wasn't: I made 62 mistakes in my first dictation. I could only write in capital letters. I didn't know any arithmetic and all the years at school were very difficult for me.