Tag #151786 - Interview #84041 (Yacob Hollander)

It was a state school for boys and girls from different families. There were Jewish, Ukrainian and Hungarian children at school. Czech children went to a grammar school where their parents paid for their education. There were two of my cousins going to this same school. We had classes in Czech. There were religious classes for Christian children and Jewish children were allowed to miss these classes. Our Christian schoolmates were envious of such privilege that we had. I didn’t get along with Ukrainian boys and often fought with them. I had payes. My mother wanted to cut them shorter, but my father didn’t allow it. Other boys often pulled me by my payes at school. Once they drove me mad and I threw a stone hitting my offender on his head. He started bleeding and the teacher who rushed to the scene called my father to school. When my father heard about the reason of this conflict he said it wasn’t my fault and that he would not make me apologize. The teacher told this boy to apologize and from then on nobody pestered me again.