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Education

After the ghetto was closed, I went to school for a very short
period (two weeks?). The classes conducted there could not bring
the expected effect, as they were held in Yiddish, which I did not
understand at all (we spoke only Polish at home). Those classes
just gave me the knowledge of the first two letters of the Hebrew
alphabet. In this situation, Jurek Weltfrajd's mother, who was
a teacher by profession, took care of my education. The lessons
however, took place very irregularly and stopped after a while.
Nevertheless, I learned to read and write very quickly, certainly not
without my Mom's assistance, so at some point I started borrowing
books from a library somewhere nearby. It stuck in my mind that
I read some novels by Lidia Czarska, "Dewajtis" by Maria
Rodziewiczowna and Janusz Korczak’s "Jozki, Jaski i Franki" and
"Moski, Joski i Srule".
I do not remember if, apart from Jurek, I had any other friends
in the ghetto but of course I used to play in the yard with other
children sometimes. I do not know how the name of Izio Gom-
binski (Gabinski?) stuck in my mind, perhaps because he was the
oldest among the kids. His fate is unknown to me.

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