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rights. He returned to Warsaw, but in 1907 he was relegated from
the State Gymnasium he attended because of his participation in
a student strike. He came to Lodz again and worked as an appren-
tice in J. Hantwurzl's spinning mill. Once again he found a job in
Warsaw, where he joined the engraving and printing company of
M. Hirszowicz. Ultimately, however, he moved to Lodz, where he
was employed as the manager of a spinning mill in the company of
Z. Danielewicz, then he was the manager of the "Solidarity" coop-
erative of the Trade Workers' Union in Lodz, and later, until the
outbreak of the war, he worked as a cashier and later as an office
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manager at M. Silberstein’s stock company .
I do not know what triggered my Mom’s arrival to Lodz. I be-
lieve it was related to the Grandparents' move, but I do not know
the details. I only know that they died in Lodz, Grandfather in
1914, Grandmother in 1920, and were buried there. Mom looked
after her younger siblings and in 1921 she started working at the
stock company of Piotrkowscy Brothers, D. Fuks & Co. as a cash-
ier and accountant's assistant. Later she moved to the Pikielni stock
company. and finally found her way to M. Silberstein’s stock com-
pany, where she was employed as a clerk (then the term officialist
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was used) and worked with my Dad.
Aunt Reginka lived at 29 Kosciuszki Ave. and before the war
and at the beginning of the German occupation she worked as
a cashier and accountant at the Mechanical Weaving Mill of Silk
Products of Stanislaw Okun, and previously she had been em-
ployed in a similar capacity at the Factory of Silk and Wool Prod-
ucts of Grzegorz Szapowal. I also remember that aunt Rachela
Brama was a seamstress and lived with her husband Jozef, who was
a tradesman, and her daughter Tereska, at 4 Andrzeja St. Uncle
Pawel Menkes, born in 1908, was a qualified mechanic, at the end
of the 1920s he had worked in a worsted wool spinning mill in

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M. Silberstein’s stock company had its offices at 21 Wigury St.
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My Mom completed prestigious bookkeeping courses at I. Mantinband’s in Lodz.

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