Anita Bozena Pankowska and Mariusz Glazer

These are my children, Anita Bozena Pankowska (nee Glazer) and Mariusz Glazer. The photo was taken in the 1960s in Luban Slaski by a professional photographer. I think Bozena Anita was already in an elementary school. I can?t remember why we took that picture, probably just for a keepsake. Our children were born in Luban and Gryfow. First a daughter, Bozena Anita, in 1956, and later, in 1961, a son, Mariusz. The children went to elementary school there. That was the first school in Luban, the so-called secular one. Its directors were party people, and mostly officers' children went there. Those were the requirements in the army of officers, that everything be without religion. But in all in terms of our life in Luban, we did quite well. My wife earned fairly well, at first even more than me. The children had what they needed. I'd say it was like this, that I'd lived in terrible poverty, and I wanted my children not to know that kind of poverty. So I did everything so that the children would have it good. And that's why I say that I had that army career - I did it, so I did it, to have some kind of good life. At that time, when we were living there, Luban had 20-something thousand inhabitants. What kind of life there was there? None. One cinema, but no-one went to the cinema. No television as such then, it wasn't until later years that we had a television set. And other than that we used to go for walks. We had neighbors, friends.