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Tournai (Belgium), before he returned to Poland. He was also an
athlete, a member of the ZKB Makabi Lodz ski section and the
Polish Ski Federation.

Before the war, we had a small, two-room apartment in the
very city center, in a townhouse at 1a Nawrot St., on the 2nd floor,
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from the front. Our vis-à-vis neighbors were the Kronenbergs ,
and the premises below were the property of the Babads .
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We were about to change our place for a bigger one in an
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apartment house at 4 Bandurskiego St. . The outbreak of the war
thwarted these plans. This unrealized move may have saved our
lives for the first time because that house, as one of the few in
Lodz, was destroyed during an air raid in the first days of the war.
As it turned out later, there were to be more such coincidences in
my life. This is hard for me to explain. Perhaps, in the enormous
misfortunes that were to come, there were times when luck stayed
with us.
Our family was not rich but we lived comfortably, we hired
a kitchen help from time to time, I also had a nanny named Frania
who looked after me. Nevertheless, I went to a kindergarten, which
resulted in the role of Tralalause Mouse in the play “About Mr.
Tralalister” by J. Tuwim. I remember that the nanny taught me
Catholic prayers and often, probably without my Parents knowing,
would take me to the nearby church of St. Cross.
I was a good little girl, no trouble to my parents, except maybe
being a fussy eater. The exceptions were broth with “chrytka”, i.e.
poured noodles, and sweets which I never refused. I remember
frequent trips with my Dad to J. Piatkowski’s confectionery in the
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immediate vicinity (on the corner of Nawrot and Piotrkowska

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M. Kronenberg was a tradesman, I know nothing else about him.
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Fajga (Felicja) and Tadeusz Babad were dental practitioners.
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Currently, the ‘Central’ department store is situated there.
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One of the two – besides ”Ziemianska” – most known confectioneries in Lodz in the
1930s. Both were owned by Jozef Piatkowski.
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